> Your brain is rotten. [...] You degenerate, vile scum.
Obviously you can't post like this to HN, and you've done it repeatedly in this thread ("you propaganda pusher", "your last remaining brain cell", etc). This is well over the line at which we ban accounts. I actually banned yours briefly, but I took a closer look at your commenting history and I didn't see you being this abusive in other threads, so I've unbanned your account for now. But please don't post like this, or anything remotely like this, to HN again.
No, these are mostly regular users who post about eBPF or Haskell under other circumstances. You can check that yourself by looking at commenting histories, which are public.
If the situation were as you say, we could deal with it by banning the "overrunners" who are not here to use HN as intended. But it's not that—it's that the community is divided in much the ways that society at large is divided, and that divisive topics generate strong reactions.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. I'm not going to ban you for this right now because so many other accounts are doing that and worse in this thread, but I do want to let you know that it is a line at which we ban accounts - see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
The issue isn't just about one thread, it's about the overall pattern of using the site.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
All: I suppose I should add that yes, there are many other accounts breaking the site guidelines and some are likely crossing the line at which we should ban them. One thing to realize, though, is that we usually take the account history into account, not just what they're posting in one thread (like today's).
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
All: I suppose I should add that yes, there are many other accounts breaking the site guidelines and some are likely crossing the line at which we should ban them. One thing to realize, though, is that we usually take the account history into account, not just what they're posting in one thread (like today's).
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