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Comment by jeffbee | Hacker News Reader

I think readers of your comment should visit your profile, click through to your blog and Twitter where you spent most of the past half-year repeating conspiracy theories about dead people voting in Michigan, then come back here and give you a hearty downvote.

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Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? Your good comments are great, but you unfortunately have a habit of crossing into badness regularly.

Going after another user like this is not cool on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. The damage it does outweighs the benefit it brings, even in the case when you have a good underlying point. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang, as always I appreciate your curation of this place, but there has to be a channel to push back on people who just come here to lie. If we just let it slide that people are going to post here that we can't trust the media because they aren't reporting on the shocking story of all those dead voters in Milwaukee, then we are inevitably accepting the end of civil society.

"People who just come here to lie" is flamewar/battle language. So is "push back on people", in fact. What I've noticed is that when internet commenters use such phrases, they're coming across as far more aggressive than they think they are. Everyone feels like they're just playing defense while others are committing outrages.

That kind of thing just inflames the problem further and take us into deeper circles of hell. You can respectfully provide correct information without doing that. Your arguments will be more effective too.

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