Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by dang on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:55PM (#11022980)

What I called pompous posturing is going on sarcastically about HN ("ridiculous preferences of HN readership", "HN has more important things to do"), which is a supercilious way of dissing a community you're participating in. People frequently do this as a rhetorical device to implicitly put others down, which means it's uncivil, which means it shouldn't be on HN.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by jevgeni on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:24PM (#11023178)

But wasn't the troll article upvoted by the majority of HN users to get to the front page? Isn't that worthy of ridicule?

I could, of course, press the "Flag" link and in doing so achieve absolutely nothing: I'm in the minority here.

I'm honestly at a loss here. I did expect HN to moderate the discussions, but I didn't expect such strict policing of my behaviour.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by its2complicated on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:00PM (#11024020)

Yeah, dang is really strict. He or she, I don't know what it is, maybe transgender, moderates with pride. Protect the "boys club" and all.

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