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> If we could ask Charlie, I am sure he'd also think it was worth it! Yes, agreed. He already did. He wouldn't want to disarm the nation to prevent his own dea

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> If we could ask Charlie, I am sure he'd also think it was worth it! Yes, agreed. He already did. He wouldn't want to disarm the nation to prevent his own death. > I have no sympathy for white supremacists Yes agreed, I sure Kirk would agree too, but that's offtopic here. > Charlie once said that George Floyd was a "scumbag" George Floyd was a scumbag. If you hold a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach, you're a scumbag. > I am sure Charlie would have greatly appreciated me exercising my first! Yes, agreed. He wouldn't share your opinion but he would support your right to free speech.

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      - dang 1y ago
        We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. You've unfortunately continued to do it, and you did it very badly in this thread. If you keep this up, we're going to end up banning you. It's particularly dismaying to have to say this to an account that has been around here for so long. If users like you can't use the site as intended, and instead revert to abusing it and vandalizing it, what hope do we have? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        nailer 1y ago
        > We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. What do you define as perpetuating flame wars? I was responding to a troll, fairly politely - the most heated it got was when I pointed out that someone that holds a gun to a pregnant woman's chest is a scumbag, but that's a fairly common viewpoint. > abusing it and vandalizing it How am I abusing and vandalizing HN? I am politely responding to a troll after a terrorist attack. That's more than you'll get on most discussion sites. On the topic of abuse: 1. You've mentioned you're manually unflagging article submissions recently. How is that not abusing the site? Do you think that's made HN better, or worse? 2. While I have your attention Dan: why is this correction to a hoax (a boy was supposed killed when he was alive) that was on the front page of the site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130174 marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of? When a previous story about malnutrition in Gaza was revealed to be a hoax, why was the WSJ article revealing that hoax also marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of submitted? Do you think manually allowing hoaxes and conspiracy theories onto the front page, and marking correction as dupes, makes HN worse or better? Feel free to email if you want to take this offline.
        dang 1y ago
        What I define as perpetuating flamewars is posting comments that add to a flamewar and thereby provoke other people into continuing the flamewar. Here is a random sample of you posting abusively to HN: > There is certainly a racist piece of shit in this conversation but you may wish to look closer to home. > I suspect you’re very young and not good at arguing > if you’re not going to read when I respond to you there’s no point having this conversation. > I think maybe we should stay and you should go. Worse you've continued to post in this style after I asked you to stop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252836. Moreover, your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle for quite some time. As you know (or ought to), that's another line at which we ban accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... If you want to keep posting to HN, we need you to stop doing these things—that is, stop perpetuating flamewars, stop posting abusively, and stop using the site primarily for political battle. You're already over the line, and I'm cutting you slack because you've been around here such a long time. But if we're going to ban other people for abusing the site, it's hardly fair to keep giving an account behaving like yours has been a pass.
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        dang 1y ago
        Your comments stand out as aggressive and abusive, even in this hellish flamewar thread. Considering how awful it has been, that's really saying something. Since, in addition to that, your account has a history of breaking the site guidelines, using HN primarily for political battle, and ignoring our repeated requests to stop, I've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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      We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. You've unfortunately continued to do it, and you did it very badly in this thread. If you keep this up, we're going to end up banning you. It's particularly dismaying to have to say this to an account that has been around here for so long. If users like you can't use the site as intended, and instead revert to abusing it and vandalizing it, what hope do we have? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - nailer 1y ago
        > We've asked you many times to stop perpetuating flamewars on Hacker News. What do you define as perpetuating flame wars? I was responding to a troll, fairly politely - the most heated it got was when I pointed out that someone that holds a gun to a pregnant woman's chest is a scumbag, but that's a fairly common viewpoint. > abusing it and vandalizing it How am I abusing and vandalizing HN? I am politely responding to a troll after a terrorist attack. That's more than you'll get on most discussion sites. On the topic of abuse: 1. You've mentioned you're manually unflagging article submissions recently. How is that not abusing the site? Do you think that's made HN better, or worse? 2. While I have your attention Dan: why is this correction to a hoax (a boy was supposed killed when he was alive) that was on the front page of the site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130174 marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of? When a previous story about malnutrition in Gaza was revealed to be a hoax, why was the WSJ article revealing that hoax also marked as a duplicate? What was it a duplicate of? Why was there no comment with a link to the article it was a duplicate of submitted? Do you think manually allowing hoaxes and conspiracy theories onto the front page, and marking correction as dupes, makes HN worse or better? Feel free to email if you want to take this offline.
        dang 1y ago
        What I define as perpetuating flamewars is posting comments that add to a flamewar and thereby provoke other people into continuing the flamewar. Here is a random sample of you posting abusively to HN: > There is certainly a racist piece of shit in this conversation but you may wish to look closer to home. > I suspect you’re very young and not good at arguing > if you’re not going to read when I respond to you there’s no point having this conversation. > I think maybe we should stay and you should go. Worse you've continued to post in this style after I asked you to stop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252836. Moreover, your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle for quite some time. As you know (or ought to), that's another line at which we ban accounts: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... If you want to keep posting to HN, we need you to stop doing these things—that is, stop perpetuating flamewars, stop posting abusively, and stop using the site primarily for political battle. You're already over the line, and I'm cutting you slack because you've been around here such a long time. But if we're going to ban other people for abusing the site, it's hardly fair to keep giving an account behaving like yours has been a pass.
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      - dang 1y ago
        Your comments stand out as aggressive and abusive, even in this hellish flamewar thread. Considering how awful it has been, that's really saying something. Since, in addition to that, your account has a history of breaking the site guidelines, using HN primarily for political battle, and ignoring our repeated requests to stop, I've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html