Queen Elizabeth II has died

To be honest, most people I know around my age don't really care too much. I'm hoping he'll use his soft power for talking about and trying to push changes to combat climate change though, he at least seems genuine about that.

How is this appropriate or relevant to YC?

HN is about more than tech and startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's been so ever since pg changed the name of this place to Hacker News 15 years ago.

Btw, your account isn't banned, but your submissions are getting killed because HN's software thinks you're running afoul of the rule against using the site primarily for promotion—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." Those are very different motivations!

Our software detects that sort of submission history and starts filtering the posts once the percentage of own-posts is too high. IIRC, I warned you that this might happen in an email a week ago.

On HN, the idea is for people to submit stories that they ran across and personally found intellectually interesting, not because they have something to promote. It's fine to post your own work, as long as it's interspersed with interesting posts from unrelated sources. But when an account only submits promotionally, it feels like they're not participating as a community member, and HN users notice this and flag the posts. It's not in your interest to post like this—the audience will eventually start using unkind words like "spam" and emailing us with complaints.

What to do instead: build up a track record of interesting submissions from unrelated sources, and intersperse your own articles with those. The software considers submission histories adaptively, so if you do that, your own-posts will eventually stop getting filtered.

If you dig up interesting things from a variety of places, things people haven't run into before, you'll be perceived as a community contributor rather than someone trying to market something. Particularly good are stories on out-of-the-way topics that rarely or never get attention. The best submissions are the ones that can't be predicted from any existing sequence: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political/ideological/nationalistic battle. We ban accounts that do that, because it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. I'm not going to ban you right now because you posted a few better comments when you first created the account, but if you keep up this pattern, we're going to have to. Same for posting flamewar comments generally, so please don't do that either.

Incidentally, we don't need you to change any of your views, nor do we need you to conform to the majority here (which, although highly international, is certainly mostly Western). But we need you to follow the site guidelines, which means using the site for intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation, avoiding name-calling and personal attacks, avoiding flamebait, and not using an account for a mostly-political agenda. There are other places on the internet to fight those wars. We're trying for a different sort of forum here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

A major gripe I have about this is the selective enforcement of this "positive bias" based on what seems to be favoritism towards Western sentiments and the ensuing under correction of errors.

To give an extreme example, these two comments in different threads are basically the same in terms of sentiment, prose and effect, however, one criticizes the CCP for their genocide of Uighurs, and the other criticizes the Queen. The difference here is one comment is at the top of the discussion while the other got the user banned.[0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881093

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770904

The "likeliest explanation" of ignorance for [0] here doesn't hold since moderation has posted comments on the topic and again, it's the top comment of an extremely popular thread.

Here are some more examples of popular but off-topic for HN comments against Putin and Cloudflare respectively.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6371615

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707053

and their equivalents in this thread:

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771398

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769645

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769550

Dang, a million kudos to you for curating the site, but this topic has been an absolute train-wreck and I hope you can at least take it off the front page.