Re:'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due ...
by easytiger on Saturday October 17, 2020 @04:58PM
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I'm sorry you feel that way but I disagree. Note when I made the comment there were very few other comments. I've been posting to this forum for 13 years. If humour and wit are not considered appropriate then I will attempt to refrain from their application to succinctly convey an idea.
Take a look at every other flagged comment in the same thread from other users and note what they have in common. It isn't conversation style.
Re:'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due ...
by dang on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:05PM
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People overestimate their own humour and wit, and underestimate the provocations they supply to others. I don't mean to pick on you personally—we all do this. But it's certainly a thing.
I'm well aware that you've been posting here for 13 years. I think that's great. Unfortunately your recent comments (say, this year at least) have been full of swipes at other users—not all of them (fortunately!), but enough that you've been doing it routinely. That's just not cool. Would you please edit those out when you post? I certainly don't want to ban you but we ban others for that kind of thing and at some point we have to apply the rules fairly.
Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? We'd appreciate it. Note this one:
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Edit: you've unfortunately been posting in the flamewar style a lot. We're trying for something different than that here, which gets destroyed when people go into flame mode, so if you could please take the guidelines and the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.