Religious flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which religions you're for or against. Please don't post like this to HN again.

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

go fuck yourself i dont see your fake umbrage being directed at the parent comment that initiated. more probable that you simply hate muslims and typify muslims defending themselves as "religious war" and those oppressing and mass slaughtering muslims as them "being kept in check". you are swine and i have nothing to be ashamed of from you.

I understand how and why such feelings come up—it makes a lot of sense given the cultural context and the history. But I'd ask you to pause and consider taking 'yes' for an answer, i.e. to consider that we might genuinely intend to treat all sides, including yours, fairly and equally. I've been telling HN users that they can't attack Islam (same as any other religion) for as long as I've been a moderator here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 (Nov 2015)

It's easy to run into a few (maybe only one or two) datapoints and jump to "these assholes are just like all the others". That's how sample bias (and whatever bias this is: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) work. But if you do that—and most people definitely do—you'll miss many cases where someone is on your side and has good will towards you. That's not in your interest—it just leads to more of the same. How about let's for something else.

generally i trust the moderators on this forum and i have witnessed instances where they act fairly. i am apt to believe you are acting in good faith, but you must acknowledge that the praise "islam being kept in check" is inflammatory. which in this context is barely even anodyne language for "muslims kept in check". i didn't start this.

Interesting. So why haven't you said the same about those other comments about Islam?

When people get a mod response they often jump to the conclusion "the mods must be against me / my side". This is understandable but not accurate. We've moderated and/or banned many accounts doing religious flamewar against Islam, just the same as any other religion.

If you see some posts where people are doing that and didn't get moderated, please don't take that to mean "the mods don't care" or "the mods must tacitly support this". Far more likely is we just didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, you can help by flagging it or emailing us at [email protected]. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...