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Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an e

Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an expert in anything except for security. What he accused me of in his comments was worse and protecting him is bullshit. He came in attacking me twice and you do nothing to his account? He didn't even read my post and then started his rant about the vaccine when I wasn't even talking about the vaccine. If you're going to threaten with banning, I suggest you do it to everyone fairly, even if he's one of your "favorites". You should be flagging his posts, not mine. Plus, you flagged my perfectly accurate post on how thalidomide is safe, it's the chiral version of it that causes deformities?

dang 5y ago
That wasn't a neutral post about thalidomide, it was obviously flamewar fodder, and therefore rightly flagged. Would you please stop posting like this now? If you keep up this flamewarry/offtopic stuff, we're going to have to ban you. Also, please stop hounding any particular user. That's not in the spirit of the site at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
tptacek 5y ago
Dan doesn't flag posts, users do.
- darthvoldemort 5y ago
  With your 1000 comments per day, you should know better. Users can't flag posts, they can only downvote posts. Users can only flag articles. My posts are flagged but not negatively downvoted. Mods definitely can flag posts. Given your plethora of comorbidities, I understand why you would be so concerned about the vaccine, but unlike you, most of us talk about the specific topic at hand, such at the Pfizer therapeutic drug.
pvg 5y ago
There really isn't (on HN, at least) such a thing as 'very fairly criticizing [anyone's] lack of reading comprehension' in those exact terms, it's just a slightly wordier version of 'did you read the article/comment/etc'.

dang 5y ago

That wasn't a neutral post about thalidomide, it was obviously flamewar fodder, and therefore rightly flagged. Would you please stop posting like this now? If you keep up this flamewarry/offtopic stuff, we're going to have to ban you. Also, please stop hounding any particular user. That's not in the spirit of the site at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tptacek 5y ago

Dan doesn't flag posts, users do.

darthvoldemort 5y ago
With your 1000 comments per day, you should know better. Users can't flag posts, they can only downvote posts. Users can only flag articles. My posts are flagged but not negatively downvoted. Mods definitely can flag posts. Given your plethora of comorbidities, I understand why you would be so concerned about the vaccine, but unlike you, most of us talk about the specific topic at hand, such at the Pfizer therapeutic drug.

pvg 5y ago

There really isn't (on HN, at least) such a thing as 'very fairly criticizing [anyone's] lack of reading comprehension' in those exact terms, it's just a slightly wordier version of 'did you read the article/comment/etc'.