Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I know that a detailed personalized response is more helpful, but it's impossible to do that in every case because it's so time consuming. I could spend all waking hours doing nothing but that and still only cover a fraction of the customized explanations that people want—even before counting the fact that many explanations generate further questions that need further explanation. So we have to get by with shorthand most of the time.

In your case, I wasn't just responding to one comment but to your pattern of commenting; note the word "repeatedly" in my post. That's a reference to other comments like these, from the current thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612019

... as well as sundry others from other theads such as these recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560453

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543675

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42472874

Your pattern of commenting includes inflammatory rhetoric, being aggressive to other users, cross-examination, name-calling, political and ideological battle, sneering at the rest of the community, and other things that clearly break the HN guidelines–and that's just with your current account.

It's true that your comment that I replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612748) was one of the lesser cases of this, but it still included inflammatory rhetoric ("and if my mom had balls she's be my dad" adds no information—it's just a putdown, and ditto for "America, Australia, Canada, Europe etc, aren't interchangeable lab cages of guinea pigs", since no one is arguing that they are). But the rest of that comment was fine. The reason I replied there is not because I thought it was the worst case, but because it was a leaf node in the thread.

In any case, the issue (as I said) is the pattern. You're breaking the site guidelines so often that your account is on the line of being one that we would ban, if not already over the line.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: