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If you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31111304, your reply was flagged by users. I don't know if that's 'censorship' or not but moderators didn't touch it.

You can't seriously be questioning how snarkily attacking someone for the ethnicity of their name is against the HN guidelines? That, plus all your other comments attacking other users, are way outside what's acceptable here. If that's not obvious to you after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, I'm not sure what else to say.

If we didn't ban such accounts, we might as well not moderate this place at all, so please fix this.

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I’m just pointing out the unsurprising coincidence that he is a German speaker repeating falsehoods German leadership is peddling to Germans exclusively in the German language.

Nowhere else in the world will you see anyone pushing the lie that Ukraine isn’t being supplied with heavy weapons.

I really don’t know how you can spin this into an attack. sschueller is simply a victim of propaganda, that’s not an unreasonable thing to point out. I just added useful context to the outrageous lie he is spreading.

Let me remind you of the principle of charity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

Reading my comment as a personal attack is miles away from the most charitable interpretation.

If your intention isn't to attack others, that's great—but in that case the burden is on you to express your intention more clearly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If you can't or won't do that, we're going to have to ban you, even if you're right that your comments are perfectly innocent and everyone else is just reading them wrong. That's because we have to go by how these things affect the threads. If you post things that look like trollish swipes, and feel like trollish swipes, they're guaranteed to have the effect of trollish swipes. There isn't much difference between arson and negligence if the goal is not to have the house burn down.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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