Please don't cross into personal attack. The idea is to abstain from that here.

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

That is an interesting interpretation of my question.

Notice how in the continued thread after receiving confirmation that they were not just making up a story as many do, or otherwise living in an area of the UK that is not GMT, I immediately switched to asking for confirmation about their point about simcity.

Could you help me understand how digging is personal attacks?

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dang 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Your comment implied that the other person was lying.

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cheschire 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah. I’m not sure I understand how that is considered a personal attack. Especially when I see others calling each others messages AI slop with no recourse. Perhaps people just don’t flag those comments because they agree, whereas people flagged my message because they didn’t.

I have great respect for what you and now also Tom provide to the community, so I don’t believe I have much ground to argue from. So I will just say as I do not understand the application of this rule, I may potentially run afoul of it again in the future. Please understand it won’t be out of disrespect, simply out of ignorance and a need to grow my definition of what a personal attack is one instance at a time until it aligns with your views.

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dredmorbius 2 hours ago | parent [-]

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292220>

	▲	cheschire 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh indeed. I was referring to how the community itself views it by their choices to flag or not flag things. But thank you for the confirmation of my understanding.