In lieu of explanation I'm guessing the flagging is knee-jerk anti-PG stuff.
Disappointing response.
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In lieu of explanation I'm guessing the flagging is knee-jerk anti-PG stuff.
Disappointing response.
Why are people anti-PG?
Regardless of whom you're putting down, how right you are, or feel you are, comments like this and >>43370236 → are badly against the site guidelines. Please don't post any more of these to HN.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It should be acceptable to criticize rich, powerful people in unemotional terms, but I wasn't even doing that. I was summarizing the other comments on this thread.
Here are examples of comments (that remain visible) that I was summarizing:
In the future I can be more careful to say something like, "Based on the comments here, people are saying that he..." but I thought that was implied in my comment already.
I'm sorry but to me at least, this was not clear in your comment at all.
Generally it's a good idea to explicitly disambiguate intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).