You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle too, and that's an abuse of the site regardless of who does it or which side they're on.
I realize these threads have been little other than that, but that doesn't make it ok to break HN's rules, and some of the many personal attacks in your comments ("Yes, really, you have no fucking shame") are beyond the pale, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Plenty of other users are arguing for the same positions as you without stooping to this level or degrading the site so badly.
Given that HN is supposed to be a place for the gratification of intellectual curiosity, not the smiting of enemies, we have to moderate the site rather proactively when people turn it into a battlefield. It has been quite the battlefield of late, but you seem to be one of the users making this worse, so would you please not do that anymore? The test we use as moderators is: does this account use HN primarily for political or ideological battle? The key word is primarily. A certain amount of political argument is ok, but if it turns into the main use of the site, that's an abuse. You've commented on non-political topics on HN before, but frankly I had to look a long way back in your account's history to find any. That's a problem.
Most importantly, we ban accounts that do personal attacks, so no more personal attacks, please.
Sure thing. The whole thing was getting way out of hand anyway. Next time the topic comes out, I'll try to steer away from it (I've been flagging the posts regarding this trainwreck of a story already.)
I realize these threads have been little other than that, but that doesn't make it ok to break HN's rules, and some of the many personal attacks in your comments ("Yes, really, you have no fucking shame") are beyond the pale, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Plenty of other users are arguing for the same positions as you without stooping to this level or degrading the site so badly.
Given that HN is supposed to be a place for the gratification of intellectual curiosity, not the smiting of enemies, we have to moderate the site rather proactively when people turn it into a battlefield. It has been quite the battlefield of late, but you seem to be one of the users making this worse, so would you please not do that anymore? The test we use as moderators is: does this account use HN primarily for political or ideological battle? The key word is primarily. A certain amount of political argument is ok, but if it turns into the main use of the site, that's an abuse. You've commented on non-political topics on HN before, but frankly I had to look a long way back in your account's history to find any. That's a problem.
Most importantly, we ban accounts that do personal attacks, so no more personal attacks, please.