alt Hacker NewsSure, but I think you should strive to run your community in a way where you’re policing the “I don’t endorse X, but I don’t understand why more people don’t do X” that this comment espouses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488
You’re busy policing this while people are out there saying “Destroy their things and firebomb their houses”. So is it just that I made a mistake in my phrasing? Should I just frame the same comments in the style “I would never endorse X, but I don’t understand why others don’t do X”?
I can do that easily without LLM assistance if you like. But if you want your community to be exclusively endorsers of violence against enemies of a chosen tribe, then you should ban me so you can keep your little tribe of Ted Kaczynski fanboys.
This is one of those cases where the word "but" negates everything that precedes it.
If you think we haven't been moderating the type of posts you're talking about, you haven't been tracking HN moderation lately*—which is fine, why should/would you? But in that case you shouldn't be taking snarky swipes at the mods based on galactically mistaken assumptions.
* e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106
More importantly, you shouldn't be pointing fingers at others instead of taking responsibility for your own bad behavior. Even if you were right in what you said, it wouldn't justify your breaking the rules. Moreover you have a longstanding pattern of doing this and we've been cutting you slack for years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 (March 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 (Oct 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 (Jan 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 (Oct 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 (Sept 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 (July 2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 (Jan 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 (July 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 (March 2021)