HN Guidelines Violations

Accusing people of dishonesty is not aligned with the HN guidelines. If you disagree with their point of view, perhaps criticize the comment on its merits, rather than accusing a fellow contributor of dishonesty.

You can't write comments on HN that:* Attempt to synthesize negative things out of people's comment histories to club them with on current threads* Directly accuse commenters of lying* Imply that comments are being written in bad faith or as shills.Your comment manages to do all three. Please don't write comments like this here.

Is it OK to make baseless accusations on Hacker News now? When did that become OK?

You may want to read those links you posted, since this story does not fall into those well-defined categories. Telling people their statements hold no weight based on false accusations is definitely inflammatory. Me simply pointing that out is certainly not inflammatory. If you follow the HN rules of etiquette, then we can have a productive conversation. If not, then good day to you.

You posted personal attacks repeatedly in this thread. If you do that again we will ban you. We've had to warn you more than once about breaking the site guidelines already.If someone else is making false claims, show how the claims are false, so we can all learn something. Don't just tell that they're false and especially not in noxious ways like this. Not only do you poison the community when you post like this, you also discredit any truth that you're tryi

Please don't make such claims unless you have a good basis for them (this is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). They're corrosive to the community, and usually there's nothing more to it than that people saw comments on HN that they strongly disagreed with. In such a case it often seems like there can't be any reason why someone would

I don’t know you or your reputation at all and I think it’s unfair to assume some random HN poster like me should.I've been on HN nearly 14 years. A fair number of people know something about me, though certainly not everyone.But if most of the world thinks that, who am I to disagree?That's a personal attack, which is a violation of HN rules.Your entire comment is about me and a justification for dismissing me and not pertinent to the point I'm making.

This is why we can't have real intellectual discussions on HN: assholes like this projecting and defaming. Nothing of your claim is true.

It's uncivil to make baseless claims about other people. This violates the guidelines, so please don't do this.https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Accusing people of bad faith is against HN policy.