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Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with? EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you

Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with? EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if you don't mind. EDIT the second: It seems I am shadowbanned, so I'll leave an email I guess. It saddens me that an American entity (Hacker News) doesn't support American values, though.

dang 2y ago
I meant you. You broke the site guidelines badly and repeatedly, and we'd asked you more than once to stop doing this. I did post a moderation reply to the person you were interacting with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302), but they didn't break the guidelines nearly as badly as you did.
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also engaging in that behaviour should be similarly reprimanded. As I've written in my email, I've noticed a significant uptick in political threads and subthreads over the past month for fairly obvious reasons. If you are that adamant about the guideline, and that is your right, I hope you police all such (sub)threads much more vigorously in the future. In closing, I'm just sad at the true colors of this community. I take supporting racism personally as a Japanese-American, and all the other positions like supporting fraud, wanton waste, and selective enforcement of laws (aka social justice) are downright absurd. We will inevitably have differences in our beliefs, but I expected better from a community of hackers and entrepreneurs/investors who would presumably support liberal (libre) values and fiscal responsibility.
  - dang 2y ago
    "you are clearly not worth the oxygen you consume" is obviously against the site guidelines. Ditto for "Please get help, you are indoctrinated and incapable of holding a useful conversation", "You are projecting your own behavior upon me (and others). Get some help, my dude", and so on. Anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html should understand why we ban accounts that keep posting like this. If we didn't, we might as well have no guidelines.
    - Dalewyn 2y ago
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dang 2y ago

I meant you. You broke the site guidelines badly and repeatedly, and we'd asked you more than once to stop doing this. I did post a moderation reply to the person you were interacting with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302), but they didn't break the guidelines nearly as badly as you did.

Dalewyn 2y ago
In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also engaging in that behaviour should be similarly reprimanded. As I've written in my email, I've noticed a significant uptick in political threads and subthreads over the past month for fairly obvious reasons. If you are that adamant about the guideline, and that is your right, I hope you police all such (sub)threads much more vigorously in the future. In closing, I'm just sad at the true colors of this community. I take supporting racism personally as a Japanese-American, and all the other positions like supporting fraud, wanton waste, and selective enforcement of laws (aka social justice) are downright absurd. We will inevitably have differences in our beliefs, but I expected better from a community of hackers and entrepreneurs/investors who would presumably support liberal (libre) values and fiscal responsibility.
- dang 2y ago
  "you are clearly not worth the oxygen you consume" is obviously against the site guidelines. Ditto for "Please get help, you are indoctrinated and incapable of holding a useful conversation", "You are projecting your own behavior upon me (and others). Get some help, my dude", and so on. Anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html should understand why we ban accounts that keep posting like this. If we didn't, we might as well have no guidelines.
  - Dalewyn 2y ago
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