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I don't agree, and there are many counterexamples in this thread alone.

People who are passionate about a divisive topic often feel like the site/moderators/community are hopelessly biased against their view. The people with opposing views feel exactly the same way—which, ironically, becomes the one thing they can agree about, although they disagree about the direction.

This is ultimately a function of how the passions work, so I don't believe there's much we can do about it.

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

you are avoiding the actual topic in question and try to divert discussion into different direction.

flags are been abused and you don't do anything about it, short of "show me wrongly flagged comment and i'll unflag it if i think it was flagged wrong"

can you openly admit that flags are been abused and misused to silence opinions that people disagree with ?

if you can't agree with such a trivial statement, I don't think there is anything to discuss here.

ps. obviously after i made 3 comments i am throttled and cant post this comment

I've addressed this question countless times, and am always happy to answer good-faith questions. But I'm not interested in being cross-examined.

> ps. obviously after i made 3 comments i am throttled and cant post this comment

Your account is rate-limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043551).

If you want to build up a track record of using HN as intended for a while, you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we can take a look and hopefully take the rate limit off your account.

if by "addressed" you mean ignored - yes. I saw multiple people raising with you and with other moderator issue of "abuse of flagging of comments" (not submissions), and I never saw neither of you trying to address it. I saw you only trying to avoid it.

just like you did now twice, first time when I asked, you diverted it to different topic and second time you accused me of asking questions in bad faith.

ironically, you violated yourelf site guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

something funny i saw a couple of weeks ago: some dude that was here for 10-15 years and wrote only 200 or so comments (but really good comments. i went through his comment history and it was really good and insightful), wrote in one of discussions that abuse of flagging of comments is crazy and it used to suppress discussion and that he leaves the site.

his comment got flagged.

this is the atmosphere that you been fostering here. either by inaction against abuse or by "pardoning" people that according to you violate guidelines in multiple ways https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46227648

edit. and how you decide "low quality comment" ? is it your objective opinion or is it all the downvoting from people that don't like facts that i preset (it's common here to downvote and flag comments with link to factual data) ?

A lot of my comments calling out Israel for this terrorist attack are flagged.

Also, this should certainly not be flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219097

That last sentence is arguably on the wrong side of the line, but ok, I've unflagged it.

Thank you (even though it's not my comment). I feel like if people are free to say the pager attack was "brilliant", then saying it was an act of terrorism (which obviously I agree with) is the equivalent on the other side.

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