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When I was younger I wanted to visit China. Currently I have no plans to ever do so, China is a scary country.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and definitely not nationalistic flamebait. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I think 'nationalistic flamebait' should be better defined; as time goes on it feels as if any negative comment about any world power is being pigeon-holed into that category, and I think that's incorrect. It's important to talk about the worlds' woes. Shining light onto issues is how they're resolved. This thread's topic is about yet another step to reduce anonymity in China. This trend of full-disclosure with regar…
I think you've picked a bad example to make this argument about. "China is a scary country" is an unsubstantive negative statement about an entire country. It isn't nuanced. It's not qualified in any way. That easily falls under whatever moderation rule we might apply. People often seem to think they're making nuanced factual statements when they're actually making blanket emotional ones. Those have degrading effects…
Edit: seems you can't even follow your own rules, both for insulting me and "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did." So is my comment egregious and shouldn't be replied to, or is it fine??