[morelisp]

Unfortunately the site in general has gotten increasingly unhinged lately. One of those is a literal "well, actually" defending torture!

I wish you'd stop playing this "I don't want to ban you, but I will ban you if you don't follow the rules, which I also set" game. Do it or don't but jesus christ, this obsession with tone over meaning is so 2010.

[dang]

If you're referring to some comment that should have been moderated but wasn't, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. If you want to link to it, I can take a look.

"The site in general has gotten increasingly $FOO lately" is the sort of thing people have been saying for 15 years. Such perceptions are notoriously unreliable for a lot of reasons—one is that it's human nature to overgeneralize from randomness, and another is nostalgia bias. It's hard to extract signal. Most likely what you're observing is random fluctuation, but of course I can't be sure.

When I say I don't want to ban you I mean it! You're a good user generally. I'd rather persuade you to follow HN's rules, such as not attacking other users, and it's my preference to try for a long time before giving up on someone.