Potentially aid money.

Enough with this bullshit!

Every time there's some positive news about India, you neanderthals come out of your caves to say the exact same things. Just go back into your cave and go back to f*cking your sister or whatever it is you people do.

Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN again.

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

@dang, please check my comment history. I am not a "nationalist", but I am tired of comments like these which continuously seem to appear in HN. Every. Single. Thread. about anything India does, and these people come out of the woodwork: "but people are still shitting in the streets! but there is no drinking water! Snake charmers hurr durr!"

I would urge you to ban these people first.

I'm sorry, but you were both at fault. The other commenter posted a flamebait provocation and you took the bait and responded by breaking the site guidelines even worse. This is how internet forums destroy themselves, so we really need to be proactive about not doing this.

Of course I also hear your underlying point and understand your frustration.

I'm sorry, but I just snapped. Seen too many of such comments.

I agree, it does not excuse my response. Thank you for doing the thankless job of keeping this forum running on track.

Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN again.

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

This was a covered by the Economic times as many others, I'm not sure how you'd class this as flamebait.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/uk-aid-worth-2-...?

That's a very big stretch of your imagination as its a legitimate argument and discussion to be had. Perhaps not amongst ultra Indian nationalist for which HN has many and your comment makes me feel you may be catering towards.

OK, but your low-information comment was predictably provocative. That makes it flamebait, as well as breaking this guideline: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Glib comments on top of long and torturous histories regularly set opposing commenters off. Even if the vast majority of readers aren't provoked, there's enough area under the long tail to guarantee it. The responsibility is on you not to post something with that expected value (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I respect HN for it's high commentary and why I avoid places like Reddit where possible. I admit, I should have made the comment of higher quality and provided sources, I was attempting to initiate discussion about the topic.

Understood and I appreciate the reminder.

Appreciated!