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I have been talking politics due to a recent coup attempt. This bubble you are attempting to create here, in the name of "content moderation", is just weird. I

by seppin 6y ago

I have been talking politics due to a recent coup attempt. This bubble you are attempting to create here, in the name of "content moderation", is just weird. I am not lighting fires, I am pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact. I see where you are coming from, but this is enforcing group think under the guise of community management. Banning me for pointing out attacking sacred cows is not allowed here is as much of a bookend as I require.

dang 6y ago
It isn't just recent. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549202 is the sort of ideological blast we don't want here, regardless of which way you point. Earlier too: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961547. When accounts build up a pattern of abusing HN like that, we ban them. "Pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact" and "banning me for attacking sacred cows" are what every troll says (right or left). Even if that were a fair description of snarky flaming, which it isn't, you don't need to break the site guidelines to do those things. That's the issue here. Most commenters manage to stay within the guidelines, so it's not hard if you choose to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- seppin 6y ago
  > "Pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact" and "banning me for attacking sacred cows" are what every troll says (right or left). So i'm a 'troll' now. I believe Ad hominem attacks are in violation of your TOS, who do I report your post to? Good luck at your attempts to create a walled garden of civility while the world burns. I'll admit to being more antagonistic than needed be at times, but this idea that you can stay above the discourse happening everywhere else is silly. But you're small enough to ban your way to a nice uniform echo chamber of non-controversy. You will drift further away from accurately representing the world we live in, but I don't think that was ever your goal.

by seppin 6y ago

dang 6y ago

It isn't just recent. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549202 is the sort of ideological blast we don't want here, regardless of which way you point. Earlier too: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24961547. When accounts build up a pattern of abusing HN like that, we ban them. "Pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact" and "banning me for attacking sacred cows" are what every troll says (right or left). Even if that were a fair description of snarky flaming, which it isn't, you don't need to break the site guidelines to do those things. That's the issue here. Most commenters manage to stay within the guidelines, so it's not hard if you choose to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

seppin 6y ago
> "Pointing out unpopular opinions and statements of fact" and "banning me for attacking sacred cows" are what every troll says (right or left). So i'm a 'troll' now. I believe Ad hominem attacks are in violation of your TOS, who do I report your post to? Good luck at your attempts to create a walled garden of civility while the world burns. I'll admit to being more antagonistic than needed be at times, but this idea that you can stay above the discourse happening everywhere else is silly. But you're small enough to ban your way to a nice uniform echo chamber of non-controversy. You will drift further away from accurately representing the world we live in, but I don't think that was ever your goal.