Re:When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
by dang on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:00PM
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It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's an abuse of this site, because it can't coexist with the intended purpose: intellectual curiosity. We ban accounts that do this, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on?
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Re:When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
by supreme_sublime on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:21PM
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Is there some kind of objective criteria for this? I've made a legitimate effort to comment in a variety of threads. I suppose you don't think that is enough.
Re:When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing
by dang on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:58AM
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Yes, the criterion is the one the site guidelines state: using Hacker News "primarily for political or ideological battle". For more on what that means and why it's worded that way, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185062.
In practice there's a huge gap between users who come to HN to gratify intellectual curiosity, who in the course of being interested in a bunch of things occasionally comment on a political topic, versus accounts that only are interested in divisive flammable issues and use HN to prosecute their views on them.