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Re:Bill Gates: Why I Decided to Edit an Issue of TIME by dang on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:27PM (#16091635)
Many of your comments in this thread have broken the HN guidelines by being flamebait or outright flamewar. It's one thing to express a considered point of view and another to get into ideological mud wrestling. Please don't post like this again.

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

Edit: it looks from your recent history like you've primarily been using HN for ideological battle. That destroys what this site is supposed to be for, so we ban accounts that do it. Please don't do it. That is also in the site guidelines.

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Re:Bill Gates: Why I Decided to Edit an Issue of TIME by johnwheeler on Sunday January 07, 2018 @01:03PM (#16091805)
My comment is in line with the Bill Gates article and wasn’t meant to incite the response it got. Bill Gates wasn't trolling when he wrote the article and neither was I. The fact that the post and my comment got flagged says something about HN ideology and/or me expressing myself poorly.

The crux of the article was that people, the media, etc always focus on things getting worse while the data shows they’re getting better. I agree with that. In the future, I will be more careful in expressing myself so as not to arouse resentment. I’ll also stop posting about BTC.

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