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Comment by p1necone | Hacker News Reader

Usually I agree with your calls on things being unsubstantive, but this one kinda seems fine? I don't think it's flame bait, just emotive language? And the substantive point being made is that online gambling should be illegal.

(apologies if arguing about mod decisions is frowned upon, I didn't see anything in the rules about it)

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If it were just the one comment I wouldn't have said anything; the issue is the pattern (note the word "repeatedly").

Fair, the comment history does paint a different picture.

You haven’t said anything, or at least I haven’t seen it. There’s no inbox here and I don’t always read old comments. If you have pointed it out before I don’t care, I haven’t seen it. If you want to point something out, then maybe email me about it the just time you see it, otherwise I’m not trolling through my old threads that often so you’ll have to accept that this is the first I’ve seen you ask.

I’m respect your wishes but you can’t say you have told me anything if I didn’t see it here, sorry Dan but that’s only fair since there’s no way for me to see your message unless I randomly go back.

If you want to ensure people see these messages, then that’s a feature you’ll need to add. I’m fine with you using the email on my account for this purpose, too, but I’m not fine with getting a single message from you here and you expecting me to have seen anything else you’ve said in the past. As far as I’m concerned this is the first I’ve seen you ask me about this.

This seems like an unusually good time to mention https://hnrss.org I’ve been quite happy getting replies to my HN comments as an rss feed!

No affiliation, just a happy user. Also not trying to say you must use sth like that or anything, just a piece of software I’ve enjoyed. :-)

These are the previous moderation replies, and you certainly saw some of them, since you responded. Interestingly, sometimes your responses were positive and sometimes rather hostile (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43877994). But we're not asking you anything different than we ask of others here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875947 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36265350 (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062502 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449790 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32190475 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146436 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857469 (Jan 2022)

This is an unusually long way of saying “sorry, I haven’t seen your messages before – will be more careful but could you please email me next time?”

The other point about supreme court is also factually correct.

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