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Besides advocating murder in some other comment, a quick scan of your post history reveals you mostly leave incendiary political remarks and don't really add an
by tmp458 14y ago
Besides advocating murder in some other comment, a quick scan of your post history reveals you mostly leave incendiary political remarks and don't really add anything useful, in my opinion, to a hacker discussion. In other words, fatbird is a troll account.
__Could someone with administrative access take a look and ban fatbird's account?__
Regarding this post specifically: I'm not sure what kind of sensible forum lets you tar an entire class of people with the label "douchebag."
- hpvic03 14y agoCalling people names is against the guidelines and the spirit of HN regardless of past comment history.
- fatbird 14y agoSays the guy with a username of 'tmp458' who has exactly one comment, above. How many accounts did you create to flag my comment? I'm not a troll account. I haven't been terribly active. I do tend to read more than write. "Take a look and ban"? Why bother taking a look if banning is called for?
- prodigal_erik 14y agoThe kind created by an author so devoted to not being mistaken that he's been legitimately worried about being taken in by arbitrary moral fashions and putting entire ideas off limits. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html tl,dr: You have to consider heresy seriously if you want to think clearly. Restrictions on expressing heretical ideas are harmful, though it's unsafe to disregard them where they exist.