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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by dang on Sunday December 08, 2019 @01:21PM (#21737252)
You broke the site guidelines badly with this flamebait and generic tangent, which predictably started a wretched flamewar. Then you perpetuated it.

You do a lot of good for HN with your interesting submissions, but you've also been vandalizing HN with destructive comments for years. We've asked you not to do this many times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356880

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18887148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952388

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432633

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17113849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705439

Eventually the cost outweighs the benefit. I definitely do not want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? All users here need to have self-control, and experienced contributors more so.

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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by kbrwn on Sunday December 08, 2019 @01:50PM (#21737436)
How is this comment flamebait? First time that I have really thought you missed the boat.

Please don't censor people just because they criticize HN or the community.

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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by dang on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:53PM (#21737859)
"The idea that private companies can just do whatever" distorted the other comment into something ideologically inflammatory (which the site guidelines explicitly ask not to do), and took the thread on a generic ideological tangent. Those routinely turn into flamewars. Posting something that predictably induces a flamewar is flamebait.
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Re:SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don... by skinkestek on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:30AM (#21740597)
I was also surprised but then I read up on the rest of The comments from that account in this thread as well and think that it something like that might be justified.

I also read the rest of the comments linked as examples and some of them where obvious to me and some were not.

I'm not a native speaker though and I realize dang has a huge advantage there as well as access to see detailed voting statistics to see what riles people up.

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