I can't fathom how you get any of that out of what I wrote. I'm making a tedious, straightforward point about following the site rules, which you broke. I don't care about your views on the underlying topics; I don't even know what they are—I don't read HN comments that way.
Buddy I don’t know what to tell you other than I posted LMAO and it only took moments for discussion of an important topic was hidden and made impossible to interact with.
You talk about the spirit of the rules but you quite literally stamped out what could’ve been a helpful discussion because you read LMAO.
You at some point spoke about curiosity and discussion. How did this moderation enforcement help either of those things?
Yes, this is tedious. It is very tedious to have discussion of important topics literally banned based on an unevenly-applied arbitrary rule of decorum.
To be very clear: I believe you made the wrong call and you’re now doubling and tripling down simply because I irritate you. There isn’t really another interpretation of this exchange unless we’re both to believe that you’re incapable of countenancing words like LMAO and you rushed in to hide a discussion about alignment in order to defend The Website from Me, The Rules Breaker. I just don’t think that’s how you usually moderate here.
I promise you I'm not moderating even a hair differently from how I always do (seriously). I've been at this a long time and it's extremely repetitive.
The difference is just that it sucks when it gets directed at you—I know that and I'm sorry. If I knew how to express this better, I would.
