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I can see how my comment above is snarky. Apologies for that. I am not able to edit it (the option doesn’t appear). But I’m surprised about the “ideological/na

I can see how my comment above is snarky. Apologies for that. I am not able to edit it (the option doesn’t appear). But I’m surprised about the “ideological/nationalistic flamewar comments” part. A lot of current issues in the news and on HN are political and especially geopolitical. Tariffs, Nvidia chips, DOGE, Ukraine/Russia war, for example. So there will be lots of comments that are ideological or nationalistic because that’s what is at the core of these issues. I guess what I’m asking is - are substantive politely worded comments that are still “ideological” or “nationalistic” (if I am using these words the same way) allowed? Another thought: it looks like these types of stories have stopped being removed due to flags (like the DOGE ones), and with that change I see lots of comments in those discussions that I would consider tedious or just ideological (to me anyways). But they seem to allowed to stand because they’re the popular view on HN - maybe they don’t get downvoted or flagged as much so they don’t get attention from mods. Do you think the typical flagging and voting patterns result in more moderation on the less popular views on HN?

mdhb 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Whoa, that's not helpful.* We have to ban users that attack others like this, regardless of how wrong the others are or you feel they are. If you're going to respond in cases like this, please make sure you aren't breaking the site guidelines yourself, because that only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * btw, it also makes moderation a lot harder when people post like this. I'm not saying you need to care about that if you don't want to, but some readers might find it interesting to know: if you think that another account ought to be moderated, the worst thing you can do to inhibit that is to post an attack in the threads.

mdhb 2y ago

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dang 2y ago
Whoa, that's not helpful.* We have to ban users that attack others like this, regardless of how wrong the others are or you feel they are. If you're going to respond in cases like this, please make sure you aren't breaking the site guidelines yourself, because that only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * btw, it also makes moderation a lot harder when people post like this. I'm not saying you need to care about that if you don't want to, but some readers might find it interesting to know: if you think that another account ought to be moderated, the worst thing you can do to inhibit that is to post an attack in the threads.