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tomhow 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45159417 and marked it off topic.

Please don't fulminate or post flame bait on HN.

Can someone please explain how presenting an evidence-based argument is "flamebait"?

	▲	tomhow 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		All kinds of arguments that are “evidence-based” (i.e., have research studies affirming them) are potentially inflammatory when invoked in a given context. In this case, someone just posted a link to BlueSky and you set off a mini-flamewar. People who act like that offline find their invitations to dinner parties start to dry up. We need people to think about the effect their comments will have on the mood in the thread when commenting here.

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wpm 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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	▲	tomhow 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Please don't comment like this on HN, not matter what you're replying to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

twixfel 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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You have an unlimited blocklist there.

Also, not everyone who disagrees with you is a fascist. That word alone is entirely useless in any good-faith rational discussion.

	▲	twixfel 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Where did I say everyone who disagrees with me is a fascist? You are just attacking a strawman, it's much easier to assume that I am some lunatic who thinks anyone even 1cm to the right of me is literally Hitler, than that I'm just a normal person who thinks Twitter is shit and full of some of the worst people on the planet and owned by one of the worst Americans in history (judging by death toll from cuts to USAID). But yes Twitter is full of the utter scum of the Earth and no I don't want to have to block them all. Thanks, no thanks.