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Comment by balamatom | Hacker News Reader

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Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and/or crossing (as here) into personal attack?

Your account has unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. 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.

There is no personal attack here; other than, perhaps, one conducted by whoever keeps flagging my perfectly substantial comments.

But since you said "please", sure, I'll think about it.

Obviously these terms are open to interpretation as well as cultural differences, but in terms of how we moderate HN, your GP comment certainly counts as a personal attack. You can't use phrases like "you're providing a bullshit", "someone calls out your bullshit", and so on, when addressing another person on HN.

If you feel that someone's view is mistaken, you're welcome to respond to false information with true information, and bad arguments with better arguments. But please remain personally respectful while doing so.

Obviously all terms are open to interpretation. Nevertheless, speech acts still have concrete intentions and meanings. Observe:

- "Cultural differences"

- Selective and intentionally ungrammatical quoting

- "You can't" used in place of "we would like you not to"

That sure don't look like the sort of honest misconception that can be resolved by good faith argument, pardner.

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