Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? It's not what this site is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14308965 and marked it off-topic.

Okay sorry and I didn't realize you had that capability for moderation, pretty helpful that you can isolate child threads.

One thing I want to question is how to criticize and steer discussion away from certain directions on this site? HN is widely known for the pedantic and non sequitur directions that discussions go, as ridiculous opinions get elevated and non-comforming opinions get downvoted to oblivion but not based on correctness or relevance.

Thoughts? I often speak in hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of other people's opinions, but that doesn't seem compatible with the mod's ideals for this site

Careful you don't sprain an ankle making all those leaps there.

My reasoning has nothing to do with their motto, my reasoning is the fact that they've been involved in multiple breaches of ethics concerning privacy, which when you think about it makes a lot of sense because their business model not only incentivizes but actually depends upon their ability to learn about their users and serve ads matching their interests. I'm not saying this is inherently a bad thing, there are many many people out there happily willing to trade their personal data instead of money for services, and more power to them, that's their choice to make. I'm just going a different route is all.