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Why aren't you saying something like this to the comment I responded to? They posted inflammatory nonsense, and I responded with a factual refutation.

• dang 4y ago
  Two reasons: (1) The GP comment seemed less flamebaity to me because it acknowledged its bias. Yours, by contrast, went straight into battle mode. (2) Your account has a history of posting flamewar comments here and us asking you to stop (including recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32580711). I've posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017883 now though. The word "factual" is basically a no-op in these things since mostly what flamewar commenters do is bash the opposing side with their carefully selected "facts". No doubt some are genuine facts, some not, and some are facts-with-spin—but if the spirit of an argument is to smite enemies, then it's against the site guidelines regardless of how facty it is. (As I've pointed out before, there are infinitely many facts, and they don't select themselves—humans do that.) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20infinitely%20many%20facts&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... What we want here is curious conversation, where commenters seek to learn from each other, not tell each other how wrong and bad they are. Curiosity is an open state, where flamewar and battle are (very) closed ones.