bobleeswagger

> I don't think that the people who flagged your GP comment did so because they have a problem with freedom of expression. I know the users who flagged it. I think they were simply, and rightly, reacting to the flamebait in the comment.

Gee, it's almost like instead of responding to me and challenging their own beliefs (or, ignoring it), they are flaming me through the reporting and moderation bots here at HN. Almost.

Is that really so hard for you to see...? How are those guidelines working out for you on that front?

I know you know the users who report comments. You give a lot of favoritism to subjective interpretation leading to a report from the established echo chamber, but you give little focus to the comments themselves when a commenter is happy to elaborate. It really couldn't be more backwards.

> It shouldn't be hard to understand why posts like "Y'all have no idea how fucked the US is and you're all cheering like it's not happening" get flagged here.

It shouldn't be hard to understand that there is no better way for me to call out an echo chamber that I see succinctly, relating to a topic I understand quite well from a few angles.

But hey, if it gets reported it must be breaking the rules, right?

You're a disgrace, my guy. Guess you can try again the next time you find one of my comments too spicy. I'm not a terrorist, stop treating me like one. I'm adding much needed perspective to a site filled with bots. Your subjective interpretation is always wholly inaccurate.

I don't care what Microsoft turned around, what they did to stagnate and gatekeep technology in the 90's is unforgivable, and always will be.

Thanks for ignoring most of my critique about the site and how you moderate it!

For the record, you don't reference any rules when you do your little schtick. It has clearly happened more than once for me, but I've seen it done to plenty of others. Don't present yourself as doing something that you clearly must be asked for. How ridangculous. My point is that I'm not re-reading guidelines if you cannot give me the courtesy of explaining exactly what parts of my comment broke what rules. Vagueness doesn't help your job in any way. At least you have me here to set a good example.

> I already referenced which rules you're breaking, though perhaps I didn't do so clearly enough. You're breaking the rule against flamebait ("Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."), the rule against fulmination ("Please don't fulminate."), the rule against snark ("Don't be snarky."), and probably others (such as the rule against name-calling) as well.

I believe those are all strict matters of subjectivity, I was not flame-baiting, fulminating, or being snarky. I also didn't directly call anyone names. I said the statement. Do you know something I don't about my thoughts on the matter...? Where's the name calling?

> If you want to make a case for yourself as a principled poster of dissident views, you need a better foundation to stand on than the GP comment and the other ones I linked to, which are just typical flamebait of the sort we're trying to avoid here.

If you want to be taken seriously as a moderator of this site, I'd start by realizing what a bad job you do when it comes to matters like this. Another opportunity to improve the site drastically, vanquished by you. I know my value, I'm happy to wait for someone like you to realize how much you're missing it.

Next time I'll just make a comment that backs up the ever-present echo chamber, instead of sharing how I really feel about the issue. We all know it's what you're asking for.

Allow me to start by quoting your profile:

"Conflict is essential to human life"

Do you ever ask yourself if the folks who report my comments just have a hard time with freedom of expression?

Do you ever reach out to the ones that report everything that isn't a mainstream opinion? I know they exist. It's the bread and butter of the culture here.

Look, I get it. YCombinator isn't a constitutionalist organization, or whatever. You are based in America, though. I hope you reflect on that. Often.

Let's get to the meat:

If you want to censor people (or your boss wants you to), you should just do it. Bullying folks into censoring themselves is no bueno, and I am more than happy to call this out as exactly that. It's hilariously ironic because I'm the kind of person who could absolutely help this community, but you are certain I need to be pushed out whenever we meet. How fun to push up that hill. Still, I try.

If sharing my thoughts, freely, on topic is "breaking the rules," feel free to call out the specific rule I am breaking. This "PlEaSe ReAd OuR GuIdElInEs" crap is pretty despicable and my time is worth a lot more than that. Your time is worth a lot more than that.

If you can't be specific: Please, don't bother. I haven't broken any site guidelines with this comment, or the last one.

It's a two way street. I'd be grateful if you started taking my perspective into account, but I guess that is a lot to ask, even though you have had so many opportunities.

> All this makes a big difference in practical driving.

It really doesn't, it's just a side effect. We already have massive tailgating issues across the US, and most folks have zero idea what the limits of their commuter EV are. Kind of a recipe for disaster.

There are some quirks to setting up SMB so Time Machine is happy, but I have had great success with ZFS+SMB hosting my TM backups. Have been running for a little over a month and nothing is corrupt. Self hosting is still somewhat hard, I don't blame you for bailing on something so critical to uptime in the first place.

That's kind of my point, it's not natural that Microsoft is still around after how much negative they have done for the tech industry. Xbox is their golden goose. VIDEO GAMES?

Come on, let's not act like Windows, in its 11th iteration, is not a steaming pile of shit. I don't know how so many of you defend such a garbage company.

> At what point does an investment with Apple actually become just as safe if not safer than the FDIC?

Apple would have to be backed by something other than the dollar for this to be remotely possible.