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Comment by paxcoder | Hacker News Reader

Please specify which ones and exactly how.

HN's rules don't work that way, partly because formalizing them would merely turn them into a long list with an infinite number of loopholes to be exploited, and partly because we'd die of boredom if we tried.

Users here are simply expected to live by the spirit of the law—civility and substantiveness—when commenting here. Snarky one-liners that characterize a (vague) opposing view as "killing human beings" fail the "civil and substantive" test. Plus there's outright rudeness in comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11663455 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11651181, which has no place here.

I always substantiate any of my one-liners. In this particular case see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836930 . Few things are more deserving of "snarky" treatment.

The other two (chronologically disordered) examples are a product of my indignation with an obstinate person who wasted people's time and, brazenly ignoring their arguments as well as my own, continued arguing FUD.

Bottom point: I am not malicious and I contribute. So I'd appreciate if the trigger was not pulled on me even though it's probably the only way to get one's comments removed from here :-/

Rules lawyering with the moderator isn't likely to work that well.

They have a pretty short comment history and no (visible) prior warnings (I was curious, so I looked). From the outside, the request is not unreasonable given the statement about "[t]his comment and others you've posted".

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