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You realize that this comment was a very minor tease? This community is so Us-centric that the pro-US-on-anything bias drives basically every voting trend, and
by camillomiller 2y ago
You realize that this comment was a very minor tease?
This community is so Us-centric that the pro-US-on-anything bias drives basically every voting trend, and the issue is just teasing how Americans don’t understand other nationalities’ humor and cultural nuances?
- dang 2y agoUnfortunately people tend to underestimate their own provocations by 10x or more. Even when we get full out flamewars the instigator inevitably says things like 'but I was only mildly teasing' or what have you. In any case, what matters is effects, not intent, and that's what we have to moderate by (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=troll%20effects%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). The effects of snark, flamebait, and so on are predictable, so commenters are responsible for avoiding them. By the way, this has been a problem in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657986 (Aug 2019), and we've had to ask you several times not to break HN's guidelines in other ways too. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and recalibrate how you're posting to this site? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286445 (Nov 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619557 (April 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885502 (Dec 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127589 (Aug 2017)