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dang ◴[] No.23835613[source]
All: HN has been seeing a dismaying increase in nationalistic flamewar. This is not allowed here. I know it feels important when you're caught up in the intensity of such feelings, but it is not interesting, which is what HN is for. Worse, it has the effect on interesting discussion that tank battles have on a city park.

If you don't have something thoughtful and substantive to say, please don't post until you do. Drop denunciatory rhetoric—it's tedious and evokes worse from others.

Remember that the community is divided on divisive topics and that the person disagreeing with you is probably not a spy, but just someone who disagrees with you.

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

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dang ◴[] No.23835804[source]
This is a stub comment to collect replies in one place. That way we can collapse it and prevent too much offtopicness at the top of thread.
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1. dang ◴[] No.23836909[source]
> any comment that isn’t 100% backing the CCP falls to a negative score in a matter of minutes

This is so bizarrely remote from accurate that I don't know what else to tell you. As far as I can tell, the only explanation for this sort of wild misassessment is that people's perceptions are extremely affected by their passions. The more passionate our beliefs, the more we simply can't see the datapoints that don't fit the filter.

That also explains why these claims are getting more common these days: passions are rising.

When your comments are breaking the site guidelines, you need look no further for why they might be downvoted. I seem to recall that you've done that a lot.

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2. GuiA ◴[] No.23836982[source]
Ah yes dang. Users who are otherwise constructive members of the site break the rules only on CCP related threads. Not only that, but their rule breaking is only penalized in the minutes after which they post, only to slowly return to the mean over time.

Keep telling yourself that.

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5. Confiks ◴[] No.23839348{3}[source]
If I look at your other posts, you're indeed pretty constructive elsewhere.

Then, don't you see that the claim you make, that "any comment that isn’t 100% backing the CCP falls to a negative score in a matter of minutes" is clearly false and an exaggeration? That lack of self-awareness is the reason your post is dead in a matter of minutes.