You have a long history of doing that (and actually we've cut you a lot of slack over the years because you've often represented minority views) and it's particularly unhelpful right now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29477110 (Dec 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29213642 (Nov 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20671158 (Aug 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15379419 (Oct 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819494 (Dec 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10692593 (Dec 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886979 (July 2015)
It's interesting that already 6 years ago, in the case of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10692593, I had to ask you not to post comments to HN advocating the horror of collective punishment. It is as off limits now as it is then. If an account keeps doing that and ignoring our requests to stop, we're going to have to ban it, not because we want to exclude anyone, but because it violates the essence of this site, as well as human decency.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Wow, it has been a lot. Thanks I guess?
> I had to ask you not to post comments to HN advocating the horror of collective punishment
Except the 'punishment' I 'advocate' is pretty mild considering the other side in both cases was/are literally killing civilians. I've never been in favour of innocent people being killed. Just hopeful that people who enable atrocities through silence could maybe speak up. If me saying Russians should have to 'stay in Russia' (a country which isn't being invaded) is advocating for some sort of horrible collective punishment, that says something...
You're right though, I should probably ignore obvious (Russian) trolls. Or just avoid social media while a war affecting my mother's country is happening. Also the largest democratic country ever invaded (just saying).
I'll probably just avoid heated topics or this site altogether for awhile (or you can ban). Interacting with those who come up with excuses to justify Ukrainians being killed by an invading power isn't good for my mental health, that's for sure.