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What was the nature of the controversial comments you made? This thread is starting to spin off into concerns that, for instance, being "anti-telemetry" (like 85% of HN) would get you banned. Is that what you were talking about? Or was it something... more controversial?

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Most of the comments were on the Python extension on the Vscode repo about the quality of the extension, and the trend of moving towards closed source extensions.

I said 85% of HN people would probably agree with an anti-telemetry argument. Something closer to 95% would agree with "trends towards closed source development tools are bad". My question for you: why do you "regret" these comments? What aren't we hearing about this story right now? This isn't adding up.

I regret the comments because they caused me to be banned and were disruptive comments that violated the TOS of the service. This type of behavior is to be avoided in the future. The nature of disruption is not 100% clear to me, I asked for clarification but gh did not provide clarification.

Mail me at my username at duck.com and I’ll send you the handles of the account, you can search GitHub yourself. Some threads were deleted though.

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