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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by sctb on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:26PM (#15954569)
We've already asked you to start following the guidelines by commenting substantively. Could you please do that?

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

Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by junkscience2017 on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:41PM (#15954736)
you know what, just kick me off. frankly this site has taken on most of the awful qualities of twitter. your guidelines are designed to coerce people into writing pablum and i've decided i don't want to reduce myself any further. enjoy your echo chamber.
Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by YuriGrinshteyn on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:13PM (#15954439)
If conservatives and the right wing are so worried about Nazi bans impacting them, they should perhaps stop being so much like Nazis as to make distinguishing between the two so difficult.
Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by bduerst on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:41PM (#15954742)
This discussion, and the replies to your comment, reminds me of this quote by Jean-Paul Sarte, which very much applies to the rebranded "alt-right" today:

> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by 21 on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:24PM (#15954549)
> Accounts that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes.

Do you think twitter should ban antifa accounts because they are affiliated with an org which promotes violence against individuals?

Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by junkscience2017 on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:23PM (#15954543)
By forcing an equivalence with Nazism, you have proven my point, happy tweeting.
Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by dwb on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:18PM (#15954485)
Right-wing and conservative politics are inherently hateful, violent, and abusive? Is that the point you meant to make?