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Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we ban such accounts because we're trying for a different sort of forum here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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Wasn't the parent comment before it already a pretty unsubstantive comment? Why allow that and then ban people for responding to it?

How is China more of a threat to other countries' sovereignty than America?

A couple reasons. First, it's a matter of degree. Arguably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29659145 was a step in the wrong direction (the generic-nationalistic direction) but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29659160 was clearly much worse.

Second, I wasn't responding to just the one comment but to an obvious (and very bad) pattern in the comments by that account. Note "you've been doing it a lot, unfortunately". The reason we'd ban an account is because they posted one comment like the GP, but because they're making a habit of breaking the site guidelines.

I hope it goes without saying that these moderation calls involve no relative assessment of threats to national sovereignty.

Thanks, that makes sense.

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