I legitimately am not sure how my posts in this have been "flamewar comments", so I guess out of an abundance of caution I will just refrain from ever discussing this topic here.
I wasn't just talking about your posts to this thread, but to HN in general. That's why I wrote "
you've done it a lot and we've asked you many times not to".
That kind of pattern is clearly a problem, especially since we only see a sample of the things any regular user posts. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd be grateful. I know it's not easy, but if we're to have the sort of forum we're trying for here, all of us need to work on our habits of how we engage with other commenters.
As for this thread, your comment that I replied to was obviously a snarky battle comment, not genuinely interested in what the other person had to say or why they might hold the view they do. That's not curious conversation.
One sign of curious conversation as opposed to internet battle is that people remain able to relate to each other across their differences. If the only way you're able to relate to the other commenter is as an enemy to be defeated, you're not really engaging out of curiosity. We're looking for curiosity-driven conversation here. There are other places to do battle.
These points hardly apply to just you, of course - the problems are all over the place, especially in threads like this. But as the guidelines say: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Ok, fair enough. I don't contend I didn't deserve admonishment in any other instances. It would seem I should just stay out of any thread that appears to be descending into flamewar territory. I will try to be more cognizant of that.
