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I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies.

In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear.

Edit: I checked the code and I don't see that bug, so I believe there would have been a 'delete' link at the time you edited your comment.

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>I interpreted your comment to mean "I flagged this submission," which would be breaking the site guideline "If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."

I don't have buttons to delete, edit, or flag, never did on my previous account neither. My understanding was that I do not have these as part of upvote threshold like being unable to downvote. Maybe it's my fault and some sort of addon doing something?

>Now that I've looked more closely, I realize that you actually originally posted a totally different comment and then effectively deleted it (by overwriting it with "Flagged"). Normally we ask people not to do that—you can use the 'delete' link as long as the comment has no replies.

I personally did not do this.

>In this case, your comment got one reply but the replier subsequently deleted it. This is a corner case. It might even be a bug in our software if the 'delete' link didn't reappear.

Well no, there was also another comment insulting me mostly. I dont recall the username. I wasn't planning to reply to that one. It was obvious that they were triggered by my comments about the democratic party. I didn't really intend to cause a fight over those comments.

I guess that Mikeouse has the right of the person who replied to me.

Thanks I guess, I'll move on.

Every post to HN has a 'delete' link for a certain amount of time after the post is made, as long as the post doesn't have replies. (We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread.) This doesn't depend on karma.

Flagging depends on karma but the threshold is low (only 30) so you can certainly do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag about how to flag comments.

I'm a bit confused here:

> I personally did not do this.

Are we talking about the same 'this"? The logs say that you edited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 to replace the text with "Flagged" a few minutes after you originally posted it.

I'm definitely not meaning to be critical and I don't want you to go away feeling unfairly treated, so I'd prefer to get this clear. Especially if I'm mistaken about something.

>Are we talking about the same 'this"? The logs say that you edited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361111 to replace the text with "Flagged" a few minutes after you originally posted it.

Wasnt me, I assumed I cannot edit my posts in relation to the downvote karma threshold thing. Like so I needed to prove my worth or something. I stand by my posts even if I was wrong. Just like I just was with my recent post about the definition of vaccine. I am wrong in my post. My brain definition of vaccine certainly included 'prevents infection' factor.

It's probably a problem on my end. I was missing the reply link when trying to reply to prohobo but now see it there. I cannot explain.

This post however was indeed fairly charged/hot post about social movements, the requirement to stay nonviolent, comments over the democratic party, trump, etc. I expected to take heat. I provided a link criticizing the democrats over their inaction of resolving an obvious problem in the USA. My post did take heat quite rapidly in that one.

I dont personally believe my comments were flamebait or trolling. I cannot see my original post any longer, maybe I did go over the line. So be it. Not to get religious, but:

“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment” ― Buddha

Let's not waste on further time on the past. Doing so will solve nothing.

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