Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by dang on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:31PM (#18136661)

Would you please not do flamewars on HN? Especially not about classic flamewar topics. I realize you didn't introduce it, but you did more than anyone else to wreck this thread.

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

Also, personal attacks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133374 will get you banned here, so please don't do that again.

Also, while I have you: if you post nationalistic slurs like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18121532 again ("shitty country"), we will ban you.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by madeuptempacct on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:52PM (#18137054)

I have a ton to say on this, but here is the tl;dr:

1. Read my other posts in this thread - does it look like I came here looking for a flamewar?

2. Calling Pakistan a "shitty country" is not a nationalistic slur, it's a reflection of the economic, educational, and political reality there. Would you ban me for saying "Pakistan has a weak economy, a poor education system, few businesses, a corrupt political system, and a history of losing wars to India."? That statement and "Pakistan is a shitty country" are equivalent. The irony is heavy here btw.

3. If you are going to go through and cite my posts - consider citing the post in the Pakistan thread where I intentionally deescalated and stepped away from a flamewar, it's kind of relevant here.

Anyway, I am going to be a good boy, don't ban me.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way? by dang on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:11AM (#18137125)

1. What matters is what you did, not what you came looking for. Please don't do it again.

2. Those statements are not equivalent.

3. That sounds good; I didn't see that one.

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