Live data from Hacker News

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

newyorker.com

111–114 of 114 posts

Re: When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

#111
post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit: I misread the comment. Sorry! Please don't post flamebait to HN. We've had to ask you this before. We ban accounts that do it. I don't want to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

Hey dang, I agree with your warnings down thread. I let the person I was responding to get to me and I should have conducted myself better. Sorry. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the issue is with this particular comment, though.

I went back to look for the obvious flamebait which I saw in there, and realized that it was I who had misread your comment. Argh! I'm sorry.

Moderation is guesswork done in haste, because that's the only way to get through the mountain of content that piles up every day. But it's really bad to get scoldings wrong.

In case you're curious, I read your comment as from a Canadian perspective, referring to the U.S. as a second-world country as a snarky swipe. Most likely I was primed to do this because I'm Canadian and have sometimes heard people talk that way. But clearly you were making an economic argument with that statement, not taking a nationalistic swipe, so there was no need for a moderation reply. Now that I read more closely, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21495051 was the comment that actually did the thing I read into yours, so I'll post a moderation reply there.

Re: When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

#112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canada doesn’t do better at lifting people out of poverty. They’re just more selective in who they let in and don’t have a huge second world country at their southern border.

> and don’t have a huge second world country at their southern border. Some might dispute that claim.

Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site in its intended spirit, we'd be grateful.

Re: When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

#113
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey dang, I agree with your warnings down thread. I let the person I was responding to get to me and I should have conducted myself better. Sorry. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the issue is with this particular comment, though.

I went back to look for the obvious flamebait which I saw in there, and realized that it was I who had misread your comment. Argh! I'm sorry. Moderation is guesswork done in haste, because that's the only way to get through the mountain of content that piles up every day. But it's really bad to get scoldings wrong. In case you're curious, I read your comment as from a Canadian perspective, referring to the U.S. as a…

No worries. I definitely need to work on my tone when I get riled up (as evidenced by my remarks down thread; European chauvinism regarding the US is a pet peeve of mine), so the larger point still stands.

Thanks again for what you do on here. HN is my favorite place to exchange ideas.

Re: When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

#114
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went back to look for the obvious flamebait which I saw in there, and realized that it was I who had misread your comment. Argh! I'm sorry. Moderation is guesswork done in haste, because that's the only way to get through the mountain of content that piles up every day. But it's really bad to get scoldings wrong. In case you're curious, I read your comment as from a Canadian perspective, referring to the U.S. as a…

No worries. I definitely need to work on my tone when I get riled up (as evidenced by my remarks down thread; European chauvinism regarding the US is a pet peeve of mine), so the larger point still stands. Thanks again for what you do on here. HN is my favorite place to exchange ideas.

Appreciated. And given your username I hope you saw the toaster threads!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164014

Post reply on HN