We've banned this account for using HN primarily (in fact practically exclusively) for political and nationalistic battle, and ignoring our many requests to stop.
We've cut you a ton of slack for years. I bent over backwards to try to clarify the intended use of the site, on many occasions. But this sort of chortling flamebait makes it clear that you don't want to use HN as intended. Not cool.
Look Dang, your forum, your rules. You do great job moderating and been patient/understanding/fair over the years so I'm not going to appeal just respond.
I've been throttle to 5 replies for years so I end up 50/50 random topic posting and PRC geopolitics discussion. I either run of comments in a few minutes of browsing/commenting shooting the shit on casual threads if interest or exhaust ability to respond in any serious discussion chain on PRC which I like to discuss in depth. Of which I bow out when attitude turns unproductive. Like how often do my comments get flagged? Without metrics you have, my feeling is if you look response / score to my comment, up/down votes tend to cancel out, aka it's controversial, aka it's middle ground and not flamebaity. At least I hardly get flagged. Some people like my comment, some don't. But the people who don't like it, really don't for obvious reasons. That's life.
As for this particular comment being flamebait, politely disagree. I'm a Canadian commenting on an embarassing Canadian geopolitical shitshow that is directly related to recent Indian-Canadian drama with overlapping concerns for extradition relating to Canada's structural issue of harbouring diasphora with problematic backgrounds. Yeah I shared a quippy article from Beaverton, a Canadian satire site commenting on the situation because it's funny. Joked about Canadian establishment wanting this problem to go away. Which they do. It's crass humor but also relevant to topic about CANADIAN politics, which no one has ever accused me of being nationalist for. Like of all comments to ban my account on for nationalist battle, this is the most ridiculous/unrelated.
I'd rather have you on HN than not, because we need minority voices and informed commenters. I just don't know how to get around the fact that you're not using the site as intended.
I'm going to take an HN break for a bit and come back on a new account where I'll keep PRC to other comments at 1:10 ratio. That is if you permit. I'll still avoid engaging to deep if comment chains gets counter to spirit of HN, but that's not going to stop people from flagging my PRC comments and giving you work. Let's be real, acrimonious reaction to my PRC minority voice content is largely outside of my control - it's the default dynamic almost everywhere on the web. If that's not something you want to deal with, I'll just step away from HN as a commenter.
