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You let the [1] comment stand and was the highest ranked when I joined discussion and yet when I used the same language your warnings and my censorship via "you

You let the [1] comment stand and was the highest ranked when I joined discussion and yet when I used the same language your warnings and my censorship via "you're posting too fast". I rarely comment and seem to get flagged when discussing same topic, thus making me think I am also being censored especially when compared to the comment I saw first. "You're an idiot" is a valid response given what was there. Whether it breaks the rules is arbitrary.

pvg 3y ago
I used the same language There's a big difference between calling some third party an idiot and calling the person you're ostensibly having a conversation with an idiot.
- jakupovic 3y ago
  There is no difference. You cannot have someone calling the protester an idiot and then being offended when called out using the same language. Zero difference.
  - pvg 3y ago
    In HN conversations and just about all conversations there is a significant difference and HN's guidelines express this. And the point there is not about who has a right to be offended but not filling up the thread with invective. If you thought the other comment was bad, you can just downvote it and/or flag it.
    - jakupovic 3y ago
      The comment was the most prominent shouldn't have been given such place. Then me calling them out is subjected to some high HN standard and I get censored, but the original commenter was allowed to stand and also comment again via a deleted comment, calling me out while I had to remain silent per the HN censorship. Dang gets celebrated by various folks who hide behind HN standards which are selectively applied. You and anyone else trying to explain this mess is BS as I had expressed repeatedly. >> ... but not filling up the thread with invective Don't use the words you cannot hear yourself, otherwise the comment should have been removed and we wouldn't be discussing this.
      - pvg 3y ago
        Don't use the words you cannot hear yourself I think the more important difference to recognize is that HN operates by its particular rules rather than, say, the rules of The International Court of Toddler Justice.
      - jakupovic 3y ago
        [flagged]

pvg 3y ago

I used the same language There's a big difference between calling some third party an idiot and calling the person you're ostensibly having a conversation with an idiot.

jakupovic 3y ago
There is no difference. You cannot have someone calling the protester an idiot and then being offended when called out using the same language. Zero difference.
- pvg 3y ago
  In HN conversations and just about all conversations there is a significant difference and HN's guidelines express this. And the point there is not about who has a right to be offended but not filling up the thread with invective. If you thought the other comment was bad, you can just downvote it and/or flag it.
  - jakupovic 3y ago
    The comment was the most prominent shouldn't have been given such place. Then me calling them out is subjected to some high HN standard and I get censored, but the original commenter was allowed to stand and also comment again via a deleted comment, calling me out while I had to remain silent per the HN censorship. Dang gets celebrated by various folks who hide behind HN standards which are selectively applied. You and anyone else trying to explain this mess is BS as I had expressed repeatedly. >> ... but not filling up the thread with invective Don't use the words you cannot hear yourself, otherwise the comment should have been removed and we wouldn't be discussing this.
    - pvg 3y ago
      Don't use the words you cannot hear yourself I think the more important difference to recognize is that HN operates by its particular rules rather than, say, the rules of The International Court of Toddler Justice.
    - jakupovic 3y ago
      [flagged]