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by sershe 2y ago

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dang 2y ago
You can't post flamewar comments like this to HN or use the site primarily for ideological battle—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We have to ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- sershe 2y ago
  I understand my comment was made in anger, but where is the ideological battle? I am trying to ask people to discuss non-tech-related politics elsewhere, as per guidelines. How else am I supposed to do that? Flagging doesn't work, politically inclined people just unflag it. The parent post is the definition of off-topic; if you won't delete it, maybe you need a new guideline, where in garbage posts like this garbage comments like mine are allowed then? :D I think a good approach would be if posts like this were allowed to accumulate comments and then deleted completely, destroying all the dubious "contribution" and thus disincentivising it? I do hate both ideologies fwiw; as applied to HN however, only one tends to create and promote off-topic political posts like this, or at least I never see the other kind of garbage in the RSS feed.
  - dang 2y ago
    "Dear butt-hurt lefties" is about as clear a marker of ideological battle as exists! Now that I read your comment more closely I see that you intended it differently than I thought. I'm sorry I didn't get it right the first time. On the other hand, the way you phrased it guaranteed that a lot of readers (like me) wouldn't get it right, so I'd say the expected value* of the comment remains negative even though you intended it more positively than that. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22expected%20value%22%20subthread&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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by sershe 2y ago

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dang 2y ago

You can't post flamewar comments like this to HN or use the site primarily for ideological battle—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We have to ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

sershe 2y ago
I understand my comment was made in anger, but where is the ideological battle? I am trying to ask people to discuss non-tech-related politics elsewhere, as per guidelines. How else am I supposed to do that? Flagging doesn't work, politically inclined people just unflag it. The parent post is the definition of off-topic; if you won't delete it, maybe you need a new guideline, where in garbage posts like this garbage comments like mine are allowed then? :D I think a good approach would be if posts like this were allowed to accumulate comments and then deleted completely, destroying all the dubious "contribution" and thus disincentivising it? I do hate both ideologies fwiw; as applied to HN however, only one tends to create and promote off-topic political posts like this, or at least I never see the other kind of garbage in the RSS feed.
- dang 2y ago
  "Dear butt-hurt lefties" is about as clear a marker of ideological battle as exists! Now that I read your comment more closely I see that you intended it differently than I thought. I'm sorry I didn't get it right the first time. On the other hand, the way you phrased it guaranteed that a lot of readers (like me) wouldn't get it right, so I'd say the expected value* of the comment remains negative even though you intended it more positively than that. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22expected%20value%22%20subthread&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...