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You cannot post inflammatory, escalatory comments like this on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. I'm not banning now as you've been a comm
by tomhow 2y ago
You cannot post inflammatory, escalatory comments like this on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. I'm not banning now as you've been a community member for a while and have posted some good comments, but please take care to read the guidelines and avoid posting like this in future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929357 and marked it off topic.
- hirvi74 2y agoI appreciate the clemency, and will change my ways. Why are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines?
- pvg 2y agoWhy are topics like this not considered Off-Topic by the guidelines? A recent tomhow (and why) explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750046
- hirvi74 2y agoThank you for sharing that link. I figured only the deaths of people relevant to topics discussed on this forum, but I suppose it is extended to any death of great importance.
- pvg 2y agoIt’s roughly “sufficiently big or interesting real world events” for some value of sufficiently big or interesting.