If you continue to use HN primarily for ideological battle, we're going to have to ban your account. We do that regardless of what people are battling for, because it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.
It's strange to me that voicing an opinion about predatory businesses and lamenting the fact that these are supported by an investor class smart enough to see their predatory nature would be labeled as doing "ideological battle". Can you tell me what my ideology is? I'd love to know what ideology has an exclusive on calling out predatory business models and the people who fund them without any apparent moral qualms.
In your other comment, you stated "It also looks like you're mostly using HN to argue about ideological and politically inflammatory topics." It's quite confusing. If there are "ideological and politically inflammatory topics" being posted on HN, any comment on them could be also conveniently deemed "ideological and politically inflammatory", no?
You don't have to ban my account. I'll do you the favor of logging out permanently as apparently, Hacker News is a place where "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" determines what's considered acceptable.
Before I log off, one final note: I've traveled extensively in SE Asia (and in "poor" countries in other parts of the world) and have friends in places like the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. If you get a chance, I hope you can travel to some of these places. Try to spend some time with people who don't have much and maybe you'd understand how utterly harmful and shameful these predatory businesses are. Perhaps, having made real-life connections with the people targeted, you too might even see a post about these predatory practices and feel the urge to speak up about it.
Read these guidelines, think, breathe, and continue sharing your knowledge. Trust me, a lot of people are eager to read interesting comments. Just do it while respecting these guidelines.
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Both points are worth discussion: targeting poor with a new method of earning magic Internet money (actually a pyramid scheme). And major investors losing any moral compass by supporting that (e.g. “Bitcoin is a net positive for the environment” by Jack and Elon).
Keep in mind also that when an account has been in the habit of violating the guidelines, being right (or feeling that they are) doesn't make that ok.
I referenced the other thread simply because we had warned the account so recently and I didn't want to assume that they had seen it and were flouting the request.
I'm not sure what you mean by "carrying baggage over", though. Obviously we have to moderate accounts differently depending on different patterns of behavior. For example, someone who slips up and flames another user once, but otherwise posts well, is in a completely different category than an someone who does that all the time, who we may have warned multiple times already, indeed who we may have banned several times already. I respond differently in all these cases.