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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by tkzed49 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:22PM (#25626999)
the burden of arguing that something is productive discussion is on the poster, not everyone else.
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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by giantg2 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:30PM (#25627052)
It does appear to be an unexplained inflammatory comment, or trolling. I think anyone being downvoted or flagged should be given the reason why.

I don't necessarily agree that the commentor bears the burden of arguing that their comment is productive. Sometimes a misguided or misworded comment can lead to productive discourse. Have you ever posted a comment that you thought was wrongly downvoted? I believe each comment is neutral until it has been proven to be productive or proven to be unproductive. I believe this determination can't be made by a single individual, but by a larger group (even then, minorities may be marginalized).

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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by dang on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:29PM (#25627047)
Please don't muck up the threads with meta dross.

It's perfectly normal for a banned account's comments to be killed - that's what happens when people break the site guidelines repeatedly.

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines yourself in bannable ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610375. That's seriously not cool. I'm not going to ban you because it doesn't feel fair to pile on, but if you don't start following the rules, we'll end up having to.

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

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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by iratewizard on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:32PM (#25627064)
Dang the wonderful moderator who can't take criticism and makes sure to get the last word by locking the thread under him. Let's all take a moment to shower him in accolades for such a wonderful forum.

Watching you update the thread I can't reply to only proves my point.

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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by dang on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:34PM (#25627078)
I don't know what you're referring to as 'locking the thread' but I don't believe I did anything like that.
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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by iratewizard on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:40PM (#25627108)
Must have been because I hit reply after you pushed an update. Either way, you probably should ban me if criticism is meta dross to you. I would rather not participate in a site that becomes snobby elite reddit.
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Re:$1000 grant for individuals working on climate change, no... by dang on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:46PM (#25627467)
We don't ban people for making criticisms. It's nice when criticism has some information in it though, as opposed to just snark and bile, because then we can learn something about how to do better.
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