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While this is no doubt an important topic of discussion, you keep getting flagged because it’s off topic for HN. Check the guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.

by db48x 1y ago

While this is no doubt an important topic of discussion, you keep getting flagged because it’s off topic for HN. Check the guidelines <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. You would probably have better luck finding a different forum to discuss it on.

matheusmoreira 1y ago
Yeah I know... I know that it's not a good fit for HN. I post this here because this is the only place I feel safe discussing this. I do hope I'm not being too much of a pain on dang's butt... My account is already rate limited to about 5 posts every two hours or so and I think that's absolutely fair. I emailed him once about it, he explained his reasons and I accepted them and the limitation. I hope HN's downraking of political threads neutralize any disruption these discussions could possibly cause. I know I'm going to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic by saying this but please keep in mind that there's at least a possibility that the flaggings and downvotes are politically motivated. People have created sockpuppet accounts here and called me out by name because of the views I express. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forabolsonaro https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forabolsonaro https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900285
- owebmaster 1y ago
  > I know I'm going to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic by saying this but please keep in mind that there's at least a possibility that the flaggings and downvotes are politically motivated. Those are both true. As a Brazilian, I'm politically motivated to engage with these lies that bring so much damage for a whole nation of 200million people. Edit: Really, reading the links and the suppositions, I honestly recommend you to refrain from engaging in this kind of crusade. It does you no benefit and tech has a big list of smart developers that went crazy going a similar route.
  - matheusmoreira 1y ago
    > I'm politically motivated Thank you for admitting to it. > lies Repeating it won't make it true. I've explained what I think and why I think it numerous times. I have no reason to think differently if you can't present strong counter arguments as to why I should.

by db48x 1y ago

matheusmoreira 1y ago

Yeah I know... I know that it's not a good fit for HN. I post this here because this is the only place I feel safe discussing this. I do hope I'm not being too much of a pain on dang's butt... My account is already rate limited to about 5 posts every two hours or so and I think that's absolutely fair. I emailed him once about it, he explained his reasons and I accepted them and the limitation. I hope HN's downraking of political threads neutralize any disruption these discussions could possibly cause. I know I'm going to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic by saying this but please keep in mind that there's at least a possibility that the flaggings and downvotes are politically motivated. People have created sockpuppet accounts here and called me out by name because of the views I express. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forabolsonaro https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forabolsonaro https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900285

owebmaster 1y ago
> I know I'm going to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic by saying this but please keep in mind that there's at least a possibility that the flaggings and downvotes are politically motivated. Those are both true. As a Brazilian, I'm politically motivated to engage with these lies that bring so much damage for a whole nation of 200million people. Edit: Really, reading the links and the suppositions, I honestly recommend you to refrain from engaging in this kind of crusade. It does you no benefit and tech has a big list of smart developers that went crazy going a similar route.
- matheusmoreira 1y ago
  > I'm politically motivated Thank you for admitting to it. > lies Repeating it won't make it true. I've explained what I think and why I think it numerous times. I have no reason to think differently if you can't present strong counter arguments as to why I should.