https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: actually, it looks like you've been banned repeatedly for doing this on HN. That's not cool, so I've banned this account as well. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
I simply don't understand you. In my opinion what I wrote was neither a personal attack (I called his argument ridiculous, not him - and I was referring to his notion that it might not be OK for black people to use HN), nor an ideological battle. While the topic is an ideological battleground, which has a real effect on the tech industry, my stance in this particular discussion would be that people simply should be allowed to work without having to be involved in such culture wars (I also did not create that website unwoke.hr, I only posted it to HN). If he wants to be "woke" and do activism and so on, I have nothing against it, at least not in the context of this discussion. I just don't want to be affected by it. I don't want to talk him out of it or anything - so where exactly is your problem?
I don't see the point of you banning my account for a discussion in a thread that has already been flagged. Obviously only people who want it would see the further discussion.
I'm really not sure what you would consider an appropriate discussion of the topic? Obviously it is ideologically charged, but it IS a job board for the tech industry, and it is a subject that affects many who work in tech.
Ironic that you banned me, because I had just been wondering that for all its flaws, at least HN is open to access for everybody. You can create an account in minutes, and there are no profile pics (so less danger of racism, for example). Except apparently not. (Also while it is quick to create accounts, I suppose you have automatic filters in place, so in effect it is not free for everyone. But still - it could have been a refuge from the totalitarian social networks).
That is dripping with internet snark and hostility and certainly crosses into personal attack. Also, the racebaiting aspect of what you posted is unwelcome here.
I banned your account for a repeated pattern, not one thread - as I explained.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...
Black people have no choice to interpret this as “we want to keep ignoring a soft genocide”.
No black person would want to be “unwoke” because to us that means enslavement, that’s how I know OP is nonblack.