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Comment by bandushrew | Hacker News Reader

I have 4 children.

I fear a world where my children cannot express themselves freely FAR more I do a world where I have to explain to my children that some people are just kind of weird...

Censorship of the internet is NOT ok.

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answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6082643

I never said this before on any occasion, but I really hope you get banned for this and the other things you have done in this thread.

  > answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6082643

bandushrew didn't ask you a question, nor can I think of a case where mindlessly posting links to one's other posts in the same thread like you did could ever be considered OK. The post you linked to does not answer anything, it's just your way of pointing people to the inane things you already said. Clearly you believe people will have to agree with you if only you repeat yourself often enough.

Furthermore, you posted this exceedingly stupid "Do you have kids?" one-liner at least four times in this thread, simultaneously managing to portray yourself as accusatory, lazy, superior, and spammy at the same time.

This thread has degraded in quality due to your participation, both in form as well as in content. You mastered the invoking of the infamous "won't someone think of the children" rationale and somehow topped it by assuming only people with children should have a voice in these censorship discussions and this voice would somehow automatically be bound to agree with you. While I find your opinion personally disagreeable it's really your (to use the term broadly) discussion style and tactics that are offensive in the extreme.

Do you have kids?

If it offends your sensibilities censorship is always an option :)

Saying this is about offended sensibilities constitutes a gross and cheap misrepresentation of my argument, but it's also interesting that you're pro censorship when the government does it for dubious reasons, and at the same time you cry foul when someone complains about your methods on a private forum. Again, this is not necessarily about the opinions you're expressing, it's about your "commenting" style. Filtering such content out is not censorship, it's quality control.

Surely you can see the irony is your expression of the hope that the user is banned.

Tell me why people like Sven7 get away with pretty much any lazy rhetoric, including literally repeating the same senseless 4 word question several times in lieu of writing a real post? How is it that when he complained about my desire to "censor" him for spamming the thread nobody reminded him of the irony of being a staunch supporter of government censorship? Honestly, tell me how this works.

Look at his behavior in this thread and tell me it's perfectly fine. I mean this seriously, you're a user with gigantic amounts of karma, certainly more than I'll ever have. If you think it's OK, I'll cede that I clearly had the wrong idea about how this place should work, and I'll apologize for overstepping.

It's not fine, that's why his repeated cheap shots about 'do you have kids' were removed. On the other hand, two wrongs don't make a right - the notion of permanently banning him from participating doesn't make a lot of sense either.

Two wrongs? You're really asserting that stating my opinion was at least as bad as his behavior? Granted, it's probably a good thing I don't have the power to actually ban someone, but I think I did a reasonable job of at trying to explain the rationale behind my wish. And why doesn't the notion of banning make sense in this case? People have certainly been hellbanned for less.

Stop taking it so personally. All I did was point out that your request was somewhat ironic, now you're projecting your anger at him onto me.

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