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Comment by peterhi | Hacker News Reader

You are not suggesting consorship. This a clearly well beyond suggestion. You want Codinghorror banned but you do not have the spine to say this outright, so you propose a poll to make yourself appear reasonable.

Even your second point is baseless, "potentially bringing a new mass of users that will contribute very little to the website". Note the use of the word 'potentially', you know you have no evidence of this but you don't like Jeff so just throw any shit around and see what sticks.

What next, CH causes cancer, CH makes you homosexual, CH promotes liberalism?

(I am no longer bothered by having negative karma)

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Parent upvoted (from -1 to 0) b/c unsupported warnings of possible future harm really is a lousy way to carry out debate.

OTOH, peterhi, I just skimmed your past comments: the negative karma isn't just b/c you say unpopular or off-topic things--it's also because you're mostly a jerk about it.

I have a way with words, mostly because people seem to miss the point if it is subtle. A slap in the face will get attention, a polite cough is all too easily ignored. The OP has basically called the readership of Codinghorror worthless and incapable of contributing to a site so elevated as HackerNews and if we could only ban Codinghorror from HackerNews then perhaps this flood of proles could be thwarted (and how is that supposed to work exactly? Do we get an injunction to stop Jeff sending his readers here?)

And I'm the jerk?

I think you're absolutely right about rglullis's methods here, they strike me as pretty slimy. I also find the whole To those who have objections to the choices: I did a copy-and-paste of PG's poll when he was deciding whether or not to ban valleywag. just a weak grab at legitimizing his behavior through canonizing something pg did for a fringe case. All in all, rglullis is plainly taking this all very personally and trying to rationalize his reaction.

As for the "jerk" aside, well, it goes either way. You can either say something politely, knowing that most people who disagree with you will probably ignore you. Or you can say something more heavy that will get their attention, but then you'll have to deal with character assassination tactics like marginalizing you as a extremist or a jerk, etc. Either way you're kinda screwed.

Censorship is quite a reasonable suggestion for HN. We aren't here to express our political views, we're here to read good content. If a site gets in the way of that, then by all means it should be banned.

Well said. That's what I meant to say when I said "this is how communities disintegrate".

Yours is much better.

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