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> the only difference between a canadian and an american is a line on a map Kindly keep this kind of ignorant viewpoint to yourself. There are a lot of differ

> the only difference between a canadian and an american is a line on a map Kindly keep this kind of ignorant viewpoint to yourself. There are a lot of differences, and if you can't or won't see them that not our problem. As a Canadian, I don't want your two party political structure (soon to be one maybe?) and your supreme court of mostly old clerics making decisions based on their religious views in my country thanks. Or shall we talk about your daily mass shootings? If you guys think that is working for you, so much the better for you.

CHB0403085482 3y ago
National medical insurance and maple syrup for all.
modzu 3y ago
..this comment saddens me. fyi i am not an american
- neom 3y ago
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dang 3y ago
Please don't perpetuate nationalistic flamewars, or any flamewars, on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gerbilly 3y ago
  You know @dang, I appreciate what you're trying to foster here, but despite that I think that some of the commenters on this site are keeping people away. My friend—who is much more restrained in speech than I am—and I were saying that we don't like to come to the 'orange site' as much as before, despite the sometimes excellent discussions, and though it's hard to say precisely why, the reason we came up with is the libertarian slant. You are doing a great job keeping the tone civil, but I think in the end it just leaves us with a community made up of say 33% of people politely saying impolite things. By controlling the tone, could it be that our trolls have just learned to deliver their absolutist, unfeeling and insensitive comments in polite language? We can detect tone but not intent, right? So we control the tone, but the trolls here (and no doubt about it we have them like anywhere else) have just learned to sealion people. And I stand by the provocative nature of the parent post. What if he/she had said 'The difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian is just a line on a map?' That is a politely stated idea. Would a Ukrainian have to take that with restraint too?
  - dang 3y ago
    Certainly the parent post was provocative. That's why I moderated it and asked the user not to post like that again. It doesn't change the fact that you also broke the site guidelines by taking the bait and responding with an outright flamewar post. People need to follow the rules regardless of how provocative another comment is. Otherwise we get a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). We don't think in terms of civility on HN; I haven't used that word in years except to tell people we don't use that word. We're going for kindness, which is something quite different.

CHB0403085482 3y ago

National medical insurance and maple syrup for all.

modzu 3y ago

..this comment saddens me. fyi i am not an american

neom 3y ago
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dang 3y ago

Please don't perpetuate nationalistic flamewars, or any flamewars, on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gerbilly 3y ago
You know @dang, I appreciate what you're trying to foster here, but despite that I think that some of the commenters on this site are keeping people away. My friend—who is much more restrained in speech than I am—and I were saying that we don't like to come to the 'orange site' as much as before, despite the sometimes excellent discussions, and though it's hard to say precisely why, the reason we came up with is the libertarian slant. You are doing a great job keeping the tone civil, but I think in the end it just leaves us with a community made up of say 33% of people politely saying impolite things. By controlling the tone, could it be that our trolls have just learned to deliver their absolutist, unfeeling and insensitive comments in polite language? We can detect tone but not intent, right? So we control the tone, but the trolls here (and no doubt about it we have them like anywhere else) have just learned to sealion people. And I stand by the provocative nature of the parent post. What if he/she had said 'The difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian is just a line on a map?' That is a politely stated idea. Would a Ukrainian have to take that with restraint too?
- dang 3y ago
  Certainly the parent post was provocative. That's why I moderated it and asked the user not to post like that again. It doesn't change the fact that you also broke the site guidelines by taking the bait and responding with an outright flamewar post. People need to follow the rules regardless of how provocative another comment is. Otherwise we get a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). We don't think in terms of civility on HN; I haven't used that word in years except to tell people we don't use that word. We're going for kindness, which is something quite different.