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What flame wars? Are we getting to the point where pointing to inconvenient truths is a problem? Are you going to ban people for pointing out obvious problems?

• dang 3y ago
  When people post inflammatory putdowns of someone's country (or whatever else people tend to identify with), a few of the someones eventually respond in kind, and then the thread goes down a flaming hole. This is predictable internet dynamic—actually the most predictable of all—and we don't want it here, not because of "inconvenient truth" but because it's tedious, nasty, and boring. If you want a thoughtful conversation, you need to go about it in a completely different way than your GP post (for example "signed, most of the rest of the world" is just a drive-by snark cliché). And if you don't want a thoughtful conversation, you shouldn't be posting here! But I hope you do, in which case it would be good if you'd review the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.