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0 pointsdang8y ago0 comments

The problem is that you have a marked tendency to turn HN threads into generic ideological tangents, as you've done here, and this takes them in a direction of lower quality. If there's any generalization about HN threads that holds up, it's that one, so would you please take this in and stop doing this here?

This isn't an observation for or against capitalism. It's an observation about ideological arguments on the internet. The specific ideological flavor doesn't matter; it works the same dismal way regardless.

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TheAdamAndChe8y ago

I was responding to a comment that starts "It's amazing that someone can go through this and come to the conclusion, at the end, that the solution is that this is a business opportunity that would make a lot of money if someone could just make it more efficient." It's a pretty direct critique of the use of capitalism in the healthcare industry. How did I make it any more of a generic ideological argument than my parent comment?

edit: Upon review of my recent comments, I'll admit that their quality is poor. I'll try to avoid ideological squabble in the future. If you could still answer my question on this particular post, though, I'd appreciate it.

dangOP8y ago

These things are relative. You're right that the parent comment was turning toward an ideological tangent, but at least it was still moored to the original topic. Yours became unmoored and went fully generic. In both cases it would be better not to do this and to stay more substantive, but we only tend to post moderation comments in the second case, it being the more egregious.

I greatly appreciate your intention to avoid ideological squabble in the future. If only everyone would do the same our happiness would be complete! On that scale at least.

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