won't someone think of the insurance companies?

The sheer level of aggressive bootlicking I occasionally run into on hackernews is mind-boggling.

Do you understand the consequences of insurance companies or government paying for something that does not need medical intervention en masse? Where do you think they get money to do that?

Where’s the fraud? I had the listed condition, but even physical diagnosis don’t have to define you.

I’m plenty capable of policing my own moral failings thank you very much.

Holy shit man. Get your gears check, they are grinding hard.

You've broken the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread and others lately. Crossing into personal attack is particularly unwelcome.

We ban accounts that post like this, and we've asked you more than once before, so that's not good. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd be grateful.

I agree, that I post a lot of snarky replies and that is generally against the rules. But in this case what was the rule I broken?

The parent says that they themselves had reservations about having a diagnosis associated with whatever problem they had. I merely pointed out the negative side of the coin ("wasted money") if over diagnosis is the case here (which considering the recent threads on the topic and author's own previous doubt seemed probable to me). I mentioned the author ("you") as the responsible party, because that's what needs to be considered. Otherwise it is easy to defer blame to "the system" and absolve oneselfs from personal responsibility.

There are a bunch of guidelines you broke there. If you want an example, how about ""Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."" or this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

More importantly, though, is a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place, so if you're asking for specific rule citations about a comment which obviously was not in the intended spirit of the site, we're already off track a bit.