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morserer | 5 months ago

I think what the parent comment was trying to emphasize is that making comments that don't contribute towards a discussion is against the guidelines of HN.

Comments like your original one, that only expresses your emotions, fall under this category, and are frowned upon. Not the opinion contained in your comment, but the comment itself.

HN users also use the downvote+flag buttons to enforce these guidelines. The downvote button is not an indication of user disagreement here the way it is on other sites.

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Jgoauh|5 months ago

This is my last message arguing about this, 2/3 of my first message is about our failure to communicate or teach basic morality, unless discussing morality doesn't count as a valid discussion or as a lesser discution i don't think my message counts as only expressing emotions. Maybe they read "shame" and stopped reading there, so props to them for engaging in discussions. But i got more upvotes since so i guess it was just an early misunderstanding and most people get it, oh well, nvm