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Don't worry I won't break them ever again. Replied to you at above link.

cheers

So, you're telling me that watchdogs users (on a payroll I'll add) roam this site and flag anything that they don't like and that is OK for you. Super.

The post on front page was focusing on what a single scientist was saying. This particular scientist has been attacked and defamed repeatedly which in effect rendered _that_ post ineffective to base a serious conversation for that issue. TLDR, people (and keen watchdogs alike) were focusing on _him_ rather than the issue at hand. Which is why I posted the appeal, signed by numerous other scientists, so that the discussion won't focus on the strawman scientist and focus on what might be a hugely important public health issue.

Of course the watchdogs on duty flagged it immediately because it was much harder to attack and defame.

I've said it again. You have a problem in HN. Mobs and lone rangers and downvote armies. You might be innocent (as an admin) and try to let everyone speak but it is evident to me that nothing that _really_ matters can be discussed in this community. That is because things that _really_ matter hurt some big pockets or a few cretins stuck in their adolescent rigid worldviews. In any case the gist of it is that the rules of the site allow them to drown any voice they don't like in a form of public opinion manipulation.

So, thanks for the hospitality all these months. I think I've no business here.

I don't understand why such an important appeal/topic touching on public health was flagged the previous time I tried to post it here. Gagging views/research does not put this community in a very good light and it is something way beneath the standards I've seen in the few years I've been participating here.

Now - there was another similar topic a few days ago that was focusing though on the views of a single scientist that has been painted by many as a crook. This topic is about an appeal that has a lot more signatories to be dismissed lightly.

Thanks

PS: Flagged again. OK - seems that the admins here are on somebody's payroll.

Kudos for landing a better job. I guess you were quite young at the time and I hope you matured more than to put yourself in such a harmful situation again. If you deem that something is senseless, impossible or on the verge of abusing you must say so and stand your ground. It is the right thing to do not just for you but for your coworkers and the larger ecosystem you are moving about. It's what that general said about 'The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept' only this time it was about the standard you put up with.

All the best

Greece is on a similar path ever since the first austerity measures few years back.

"..chip companies are definitely in a whole different world when it comes to documentation, compared to the software world I'm now in!"

Makes sense though. SW is a much more agile/faster iterations artifact than HW. Documentation is very hard to keep pace in this env, so much so that people are actually trying to infer it automatically from the -ever changing- code.