> I had to go back 79 days and what felt like hundreds of posts to find any exception (something about heat pumps I think!), but then scrolling further back just led through reams more of the same.

I went and checked myself and it's not exactly quite that bad, I quite regularly comment on posts unrelated to Israel/politics, these are comments of mine newer than 79 days that seem entirely unrelated for example:

7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846584

19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687187

28 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569325

52 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252558

59 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163184

59 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163014

79 days ago(the supposedly non-political one you found about heat pumps is quite ironically titled "The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915330

> To say that you're simply correcting inaccuracies and misinformation doesn't really work because the question of what counts as accurate vs. misinformation is hotly disputed. It is basically the entirety of the battle.

I think it's more complex than that, for example in this thread I was pointing out that one shouldn't use UN aid delivery data to justify that sufficient aid is reaching Gaza, because UN aid data doesn't support that conclusion by itself, I then pointed out what data does support the conclusion that sufficient aid is being delivered. So I think there are cases where it's entirely possible to correct misinformation without even challenging the conclusion.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645#49906915

> On the other hand, your comments have mostly (though not entirely) been avoiding the more degraded forms of guidelines breakage that people resort to in these threads - things like snark, name-calling, and from there into personal attacks, slurs, and so on.

Yeah, I try and avoid that in general.

> That's good, but it's not enough—if you want to keep posting on HN we need you not to use the site primarily for political battle (broadly construed).

I guess the main issue is that I tend to get more replies to my comments in Israel related threads and I get drawn in responding back if I think there's more to be said on the topic, most of my Israel related comments(in terms of absolute numbers) seem be from these super deep back and forth threads and not top level comments.