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Re:Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields ... by nkoren on Saturday July 15, 2017 @11:54AM (#14777270)
I'm very disturbed by your comments. 0xFFC has not been uncivil, nationalistic, or even particularly political. He was merely pointing out that Maryam was representative of a society that is more diverse and tolerant than many people imagine -- an issue that she herself cared about and occasionally addressed. That is fair and on-topic social statement; his only nod to politics was the words "despite our theocratic regime", which I'd also add is a perfectly fair comment.

And yet you slap him down and not davidf18, whose response is, in fact, overtly nationalistic and entirely off-topic.

I would kindly ask you to rethink how you moderate this.

Re:Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields ... by dang on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:43PM (#14778529)
> And yet you slap him down and not davidf18, whose response is, in fact

On the contrary I scolded that user not once but twice, and more harshly, in accordance with the comments themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776963

(and later banned him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778558)

Even if I hadn't, though, it's entirely bogus to conclude that moderation responding to one commenter means implicitly endorsing an opposing commenter.