Hacker News Reader

I read through your comment history to try to find some examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928482

There’s a recurring pattern: people ask you to back up what you say, and then you respond with “I won’t do that.”

And my comment there stands. It's gotten worse since then, instead of downvotes I simply get flagged and my content disappears. No point.

There's also no point in posting that you wont post because of getting downvoted and flagged, because that post will also get downvoted and flagged.

If you make a controversial claim backed up by sources, you will get negative reactions from people who doubt the validity of those sources. If you make a controversial claim and refuse to provide sources because people would doubt their validity, you'll get negative reactions even from someone who might have agreed with you, because that's just rude.

Save your important points in a blog post or at least a local text file and c+p them where appropriate. I'd be interested in understanding your point if view but as it stands I have nothing to work with.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com