Edit: it turns out you've done this at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552205). Obviously the war makes for strong and legitimate feelings. But commenters here can be, and need to be, peaceful enough not to blame or put down entire countries/histories/cultures. Otherwise we're just propagating more war, which is certainly not what HN is for. That follows from the principle of curiosity which we're trying to optimize for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
Also, you've been breaking the site guidelines quite a bit in other places that have nothing to do with the war:
dang|2 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it turns out you've done this at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552205). Obviously the war makes for strong and legitimate feelings. But commenters here can be, and need to be, peaceful enough not to blame or put down entire countries/histories/cultures. Otherwise we're just propagating more war, which is certainly not what HN is for. That follows from the principle of curiosity which we're trying to optimize for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
Also, you've been breaking the site guidelines quite a bit in other places that have nothing to do with the war:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200386 (June 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123130 (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122929 (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087689 (May 2023)
We ban accounts that post this way. I don't want to ban you! So would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward?
theironhammer|2 years ago