Would you please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

This is BS. HN is full of ideological battles about everything from K8 to crypto to globalism. That’s what makes it fun.

Did you miss the word 'primarily'? That's the most important thing in what I posted above. These links explain why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As for ideological battle generally—the site guidelines make a distinction between that and curious conversation, which is what we want here. Not only are they not the same, they're not compatible—for the same reason that having a tank battle and playing frisbee in the park are not compatible, or that boxing and dancing aren't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Many topics here have ideological and political overlap—. That's generally ok, as long as there's a basis for substantive discussion (pure flamebait articles, for example, are off topic).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

But the question is how people go about talking about them. If they're just trying to smite enemies and using the usual weapons (snark, name-calling, etc.) to do it, that's clearly against the site guidelines and not what we want here.

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

Hi Dan please delete my account and all associated posts / data I don’t need it. Don’t see an option to do it myself in settings. Thanks!