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Re:The Making of a YouTube Radical by dang on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:29PM (#20136151)
This sort of flamebait will get you banned on HN. No more of it please.

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

Re:The Making of a YouTube Radical by golergka on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:20AM (#20145094)
Thanks for giving me a heads-up! Could you please clear up how is my comment different from the one I was answering to in regard to a flame war so I know how to understand such distinction in the future?
Re:The Making of a YouTube Radical by dang on Monday June 10, 2019 @04:12PM (#20150341)
"I just have this other question, could you please clarify" is a classic troll gambit, as are "how is X a Y" and "how is ABC different from XYZ". Alas, nothing in your comment convinces me that you mean it as other than litigious.

This is a sort of risky situation. I'm willing to invest time and energy in helping anyone who sincerely wants to use HN as intended. But it's actually a considerable effort. It's draining, because these discussions are so repetitive, and also because they're so adversarial. One spends a lot of effort on the boring task of weatherproofing whatever one says.

Such questions can amount to a DoS attack on moderators, because of the time it takes to patiently answer them, which then can't go into other things we might do to make the site better. If you want us to invest those resources into helping you understand the intended use of HN, you need to clearly establish that that is your good-faith intention.