How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick

Re:How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick by AlexCoventry on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:07PM (#16515996)

"Consider the fact that you are a byproduct of the endless programming and propaganda behind the War on Terror."

Can you expand on that? It sounds like it may contain a very interesting perspective, but I'm not quite sure what you mean.

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Re:How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick by HeyWolfey on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:11AM (#16519739)

Here's a reply that helps, but it was flagged because it doesn't meet the approval of the "Right Side of History"(tm) committee that runs HackerNews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518364

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Re:How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick by dang on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:28PM (#16523123)

Actually users flagged it, because it obviously breaks the site guidelines.

It doesn't matter what ideology you're battling for or against. It's the genre of ideological flamewar itself that's damaging here, and therefore unwelcome, and therefore will get you banned if you keep doing it.

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

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Re:How not to be a crank: rules for not being a science-dick by HeyWolfey on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:47PM (#16525982)

Those rules are disingenuous, extensively ideologically partisan, and do not reflect the human condition at all. It's akin to taping a warning sign on a Skinner box that says, "Do not react" while the experimenters are perpetual baffled when subjects twitch when delivered a jolt of electricity.

By "the users", do you mean four or so hyperpartisan ideological zealots who exploit your rules to get their rush of moral supremacy by downvoting instead of commenting to refute the points?

Because downvoting is technically political activity and your rules totally allow that all day long.

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