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Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by wutbrodo on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @10:09AM (#28368273)
Could you clarify which part of the comment qualifies as a "flamewar", so I can avoid doing so in the future? Is it simply the editorializing about being "revolting and dehumanizing", or is there an issue with the semantic content of the comment?

I'm not asking this to be difficult, but just want to understand where the bounds here are. I don't have any interest into getting drawn into irrelevant culture-warring, but discussion of society's downplaying of female abusers seems centrally relevant to a thread entitled "Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them".

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Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by dang on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:45PM (#28371131)
Generic ideological disputes like this subthread already are off-topic for HN because they're predictable, tedious, and usually turn nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I would say what crosses the line into flamewar is when it's combined with denunciatory language. What you posted wasn't nearly as bad as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350724, but "I'm soundly rejecting this framing; in fact, I find it utterly revolting and dehumanizing" definitely counts, and in any case it takes two to tango.

The proper thing for this entire subthread would have been to flag it at the root (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350724 - yes I know that was posted by someone else) and move on.

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Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by wutbrodo on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:56AM (#28392044)
Alright, thanks for clarifying!
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