Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, it's against the site guidelines, we end up banning such accounts, and we've had to warn you more than once before.
Not sure what to say to this one. Women can get sensitive, if requests of them can be seen in an unpleasant light. Women have also been historically tricked into posing for cameras, had their images misused, and are often quite sensitive about it.
I thought my comment was legit, and on topic. If one is going to implement a policy where people have to slowly move their camera around their body, there may be severe misunderstandings ... and an inability to clarify if a bad response runs-away on twitter and such.
Support persons should be carefully coached on how to handle this.
I guess all I can say here is, I didn't mean this to be so controversial.
We ban accounts that keep doing that, so would you please review https://qht.co/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of curious conversation more to heart? Tedious flamewar, especially the back-and-forth, tit-for-tat kind, is exactly what we don't want here.´
Listen, I'm willing to try to adhere more closely. I see how some of the above posts click with what you're complaining about.
One suggestion ; some news articles are just, almost, entrapment. I feel like HN having an article about racism, is going to entice all sorts of comments which break the site guidelines.
Take my posts above ; I legitimately am concerned that by simply labeling those we are strongly opposed to, eg racists, we fail. If we just label, if we therefore misunderstand their motivations, any attempts at correction become flawed, and just plain don't work.
I want positive corrective action to fix things, not divisive posturing.
Obviously in hindsight I should not have waded in, I should have realised how my post, my motivations could be misunderstood. I agree, my bad. 100%. But once there, I'm left in this horrid position of suddenly feeling as if I'm being labelled as a racist sympathizer or some such. A reputation is a hard thing to leave on the ground, with no response!
