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Your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd appreciate it, because we're trying for something different here.


I think you’ve misinterpreted my tone in this thread, I really was approaching it because I was curious about his parenting style. But I’ve apologised to the other guy, because it wasn’t my intention to ruffle any feathers. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873355)

I’ve made a couple of nasty comments about Elon Musk recently. I’m unlikely to change the way I speak about him. I don’t speak about anyone else that way, as far as I know. You can ban me if insulting Elon Musk in particular and no one else is something you don’t like. It is my sincere belief that he warrants an exception, because of the damage he’s done and continues to do. You’re welcome to defend him and ban people who insult him in the name of upholding the rules.


>I’ve made a couple of nasty comments about Elon Musk recently. I’m unlikely to change the way I speak about him.

Writing like this is covered in the site guidelines:

"Edit out swipes"


I believe I covered this when I said

> It is my sincere belief that he warrants an exception, because of the damage he’s done and continues to do.


This site deteriorates when any of us put a personal belief above the beliefs detailed in the guidelines.


I respect your opinion, it is a valid one.

And yet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance


The issue is not tolerance, or intolerance; it's the site goal of pursuing "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" and doing so while we all, among other things,

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

None of that precludes us here from criticizing someone or something. It's a matter of how we hold such discussions.


> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

You’re being curmudgeonly.

Please don’t break site guidelines. Take some time to review them.




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