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You've unfortunately been crossing into personal attack and name-calling repeatedly in your HN posts, as well as breaking the site guidelines in other ways. We ban accounts that do this kind of thing, so could you please stop?

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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It was a legitimate question. I truly don't understand how anyone can imagine property crime as "not scary". I was trying to get a better understanding of the person so that I would not be rude if he actually was neurodivergent.

It's extraordinarily hard to differentiate between trolls and non-trolls online anymore so I don't see what's wrong with asking that of someone.

What's wrong is that, whether you intended it to or not, it is inevitably going to land as a personal attack.

If you want additional explanation, here are links to lots of it - not in the most convenient format to read, but it covers the essentials:

the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate their intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

we have to moderate by likely effects, not by intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

internet psychiatric diagnosis is best avoided - https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

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