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Your comment proves what I'm saying. It's obviously name-calling to refer to people's beliefs as nutty-crazy-idiotic. In fact the latter word is the canonical example the HN guidelines give for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Thanks for the interesting etymology!

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Dang, respectfully, you should ask him what he means by it because I honestly read it differently.

I think he is calling the well wishing weird/phony as most people here are irreligious / not muslims / haven't had a clue about Eid Mubarak until yesterday.

Anyway, I can't be sure either but my point is it absolutely would not have occurred to me until you said it. Caveat: English is not my first language but obviously is a bit far fetched.

We have to moderate by effects, not intent (which often we can't know); moreover we have to moderate by effects based on past experience. In terms of effects based on past experience I promise you that referring to religion this way is the sort of thing that leads to flamewars. It is not a close call.

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

That is quite a bit more nuanced and reasonable that the original moderation feedback given. You certainly appeared to know his intent when you outright accused him of name calling.

> p.s. Please let's not go into name-calling like "fruit-cakery". You can make your substantive points without that!

Heed your own advice?

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