Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

Re:Female monkeys use wile to rally troops by dang on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @12:17PM (#13024032)

Low-substance comments about inflammatory topics, like this one, end up triggering flamewars, like this one. We're trying to avoid those on HN. They're boring—alternately flippant and nasty—and if the term 'stupid' has a local definition, this would be it.

There are other places on the internet where you can ply that art if you want to. If you want to continue to post to HN, please behold the damage you wrought and refrain from doing it again here.

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Re:Female monkeys use wile to rally troops by gspetr on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:45PM (#13025703)

I thought HN welcomed diversity of opinion.

Starting flamewars was not my intention.

When I posted the comment the title of this posting was quite different and it made more sense in that context.

If you wished to ask me to substantiate the comment - you could have done exactly that, no need for threats.

EDIT: I've read the thread in it's entirety.

You're right, it's not the level of discussion I had hoped for.

But I will still maintain that I acted with intellectual integrity and if people have collectively steered towards the lowest common denominator - that is just the way people are.

A sign of times perhaps, but so was this US presidential election. I subscribe to Marcus Aurelius' philosophy of stoicism: "All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them."

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