https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833516 and marked it off-topic.
That said, I fail to identify the guideline that lead to this decision. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?
I'm also willing to justify my claim, if it seemed gratuitous to any.
EDIT: I'm unable to justify any of my claims. I'm unhappy about living in Canada, and I can't help but feel jealous of american people when being exposed to HN or mainstream media. I was wrong for claiming that OP's friends would lie to him. I was wrong for claiming that Canada is a third world country. I'm sorry.
If you are referring to undeveloped vs developed countries, Canada is 9, while USA is 8 in the HDI. Still considered developed. You are still wrong.
Anyone who thinks otherwise would think Manhattan as no different than Calcutta because they're too angry to notice the differences.
On HN we're trying for respectful, substantive discourse. We don't always get there, but it's clear that we can't have users putting down entire countries without things degenerating pretty quickly.
If you'd err on the side of editing out incivility from your future comments, we'd appreciate that too. It's something a lot of us have to work on (including me) and are learning together. I'd like to think the community is making slow progress in that direction.