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Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by dang on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:18AM (#14610655)
We've banned this account for ideological trolling. Not what HN is for.

Posting like this account has been doing will eventually get your main account banned too, so please don't create accounts to do this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608078 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by Alfredo123 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:49AM (#14612598)
I am unable to see any "trolling" in the comment. The comment seems accurate.
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Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by dang on Thursday June 22, 2017 @02:34PM (#14614298)
It was more than one comment. We judge 'trolling' by its effects. Inflammatory posts on divisive topics provoke flamewars, and that destroys the commons.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

This doesn't mean you can't comment on divisive topics. It means that as the topic gets more divisive, comments need to become more thoughtful and more substantive, not less.

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Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule by jshevek on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:02PM (#14616473)
When you decide that comments are "trolling" by their effects, rather than only their content, you give censorial power to people who respond poorly.
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