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> You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. You should also reconsider how you provide tech support, in general.

So an actively hostile comment in response to an opinionated one is somehow better and not measurably worse? You could just as easily have a discussion on why they think it objectively sucks, and you both may learn something from it.

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I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes, an angry but on-point comment is better than just throwing out "lolsux" uselessly, or in the case above, based on wrong information.

If you keep posting like that, or like this for that matter, we will ban you. Please clean up your act.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As I've said before, you'll have to ban me then, if you really believe I'm a negative contribution.

I'm not going to stop responding in reasonable, human, and direct ways to comments.

I'm also going to note, yet again, your highly biased enforcement:

Nothing to someone who did insult me, just random dog-piling based on your whims because you happened to notice an emotional outburst.

That's terrible community management.

"Shut your mouth" is indefensible on HN, and pointing at the other person is a low-quality move. Since you don't want to use this site as intended or take responsibility for misbehavior, I've banned the account.

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