I know there's a war going on, but that is no reason to trash this place; it's a reason to consciously take better care of it. It does no good to set the house on fire, especially when there are other people present.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Edit: we've been having to ask you this kind of thing for many years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516434 (Dec 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959342 (Oct 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724259 (Oct 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522504 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24512910 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24423885 (Sept 2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324842 (Sept 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264446 (Dec 2016)
I don't want to ban you, but if you keep this up we'll end up having to, so please fix this.
i can be 80% on your side here, 80% see where you come from & see my mistake. but i also 20% don't see it clearly. this practice of you threatening me to kick a generally well behaved, contributory citizen off for 0.002% of my posts seems unfair. i've emailed numerous times asking for you to clear my name, to reset the strikes, to undo the years of rate-limiting you've kept me under, but this system seems headed only in a bad direction. and you offer no peace, no way to serve time, no way to pay my debt: i can only head towards worse, under increasing threat. this sucks dang. this is awful. i'm sorry i keep violating your expected standards, but i also don't think humanity will ever resolve themselves to your satisfaction adequately, i don't think anyone with heart & soul & feelings can de-risk themselves sufficiently to insure they never breach your protocols.
there has to be some carrot here. you have to let ills be forgiven. i had >two years of total peace, and you dinged me a bunch right around one of the most contested, emotional political events of probably both of our lives so far. your scale is off base sir. you need to figure yourself out better.
I'm always happy to try to explain the intended spirit of this site, and how we interpret the guidelines, as best I can. But posting "what a shit country" isn't a borderline infraction—how do you think HN users from that country are going to feel when they read such a thing?
From your comment here, it sounds like you might be feeling that moderation is somehow personal towards you. I can tell you for certain that that's not the case. But I'm not sure what else to add that would make you feel better. I don't see any emails from you in the archive, so if you've emailed many times, you must not have mentioned your username.
There's lots of forgiveness - we don't want to exclude anybody who sincerely wants to use the site as intended. At the same time, your 0.002% argument doesn't work when it comes to breaking the rules. You might get pulled over for a speeding ticket even though you drive below the limit 99.998% of the time.
this is how i feel about the US
there are plenty of radical & extremist forces within America but they are engaged in the great-but-often-shitheaded debate. no voices are censored, even lowlifes propogandists are simply expelled from major content networks not repressed by the state nor the economy: we permit them their squalid shitty, existence as radical extremists within our nation. any voice is allowed. the penalties are nil.
it's chaos & hell, but a far less small minded & dogmatically regressive form of hell. how anyone cant tell the differnce is a sad sad sign to me. what about this info authoritarian-fascist state of being isnt fucking crystal god damned clearly far far far worse? the western states do not have violently intolerance towards outside views & delusional state-insisted upon views. the west keeps letting even the most base speak, does nothing. the west understands that cultural victories are not truly attainable by force. this article is all about a state that has hyped up and worshiped force & the state as the absolute, as the only power worth of respect, & it shows how far those sodden idiots fall for their state-sponsored delusions. i see no parallel.
disreality is rampant within the united states, but it is not state-enforced. there-in lies a key difference. we have a critical culture which attempts to check ourselves. this is a Hard problem, but one we are engaged in, struggle for. all views must support themselves amid the debate. China doesnt have any such nuance, doesn't permit cultural engagement.