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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by dang on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:15PM (#34603066)
Please stop using HN for ideological battle. You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we ban accounts that do this regardless of what they're for or against.

Also, please don't use multiple accounts to do this and especially not in the same threads.

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

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:56PM (#34603549)
Firstly I'd like to apologize for replying to this comment instead of flagging it and moving on. It can be difficult to judge sometimes when to engage.

There's something I'd like to clarify. I came back to this thread to find that my own comment was flagged, and I'd also collected a surprising number of downvotes in a short span of time (unless flagging resets vote count - I'm not sure). Is the flag from you, as a slap on the wrist for fueling the fire? I didn't think flags were used that way, but once again I'm not sure. If it's not from you, then I suspect some brigading may have occurred. (It's possible someone else felt my comment warranted admin attention, but 1) the timing is odd and 2) you've clearly already seen this thread).

Sorry as well for the meta - I'd have made this a PM, but, well...

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by dang on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:10PM (#34604922)
(It's better to email [email protected] than to post about this in the threads. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.)

Yes, I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34596819 and downvoted the comment but there were flags and downvotes from other users as well.

I'm not arguing against your view on the topic (nor the GP's, for that matter) but you definitely fed the flames in this thread, and not just in one place. I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34596819 because it seemed the most egregious.

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