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>HN is for curious conversation—which rules out $X-fanaticism for pretty much any X. My name is irrelevant to the contents of this post. I believe I said nothi
by GNUfanaticism 3y ago
>HN is for curious conversation—which rules out $X-fanaticism for pretty much any X.
My name is irrelevant to the contents of this post. I believe I said nothing wrong, nor did I intend to start a flamewar or oppose diversity. Promoting free software over proprietary software will be a reoccurring theme to my posts but it looks like that ended already if my privileges are revoked.
- dang 3y agoI'm sorry I didn't explain this more clearly when I posted earlier—I was moderating in haste, which is never a good idea. The username is relevant because it suggests a single-purpose account and those are not allowed on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20single%20purpose%20agenda&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Pre-existing agendas are antithetical to the curious conversation we want here—which, at its best, meanders through whatever catches a person's fancy. > nor did I intend to start a flamewar or oppose diversity If you say that wasn't your intent, I believe you! but your comment pointed in exactly that direction—enough that we got emails complaining about it. It's fine with me if people disagree about Stallman and whatnot but the ideological battle aspect is just poison. (And yes it was in the original article too.)