Op gave a personal opinion about how onboarding is ‘Total bullshit’. Commenter asked for OP to not throw their personal bias as truth. It is confirmation bias. I had this one experience so all experience are this one experience. Commenter two called commenter one out saying that commenter one is completely off the mark and that op was not speaking gospel due to one sentence they wrote at the beginning.

I merely pointed out how Saying one sentence does not change the sentiment and tone of the rest of the story.

Ie; ‘In my personal experience’ does not negate preaching nor gospel talk.

Sure I may have told commenter two to stop contributing, but that is because commenter two was also violating the rules that you so eagerly linked.

Agreeing with a commenter who calls someone out on their attempts to sway others through logical fallacies like straw man etc, is not breaking the rules. There is a huge problem in modern times of manipulation and when people are trying to manipulate others it should be brought to light.

There was nothing wrong in the example I provided and that was not meant to be taken literal, so the example provided does not break the rules.

Again, what is the point of dogmatically following rules, when rules aren’t a catch all to begin with? They are guidelines to help form a better community. The rules need to be analyzed in the context of the whole, not in some isolated measures. Nor garnered through a ‘reputation’ via downvoted. I bet most people who can downvote felt attacked when a personal experience was labeled as gospel because they are the same people who often find themselves preaching.

HN would be better off without downvoted in total rather then some gatekeeping effort to put downvotes ‘in the right hands’. Honestly this is silly that my comment was even flagged.

If an apology is wanted for telling commenter two to stop contributing I will do so, but commenter two should also apologize for making others feel they cannot contribute. Arguments are fine but when you take the stance of I am right and you are wrong without any evidence or support or argument at all, you are not starting a debate you are just contributing to the wide pool of logical fallacy.

Lastly I will defer to Paul Gharam’s Hierarchy of disagreement, which btw op and commenter two failed to reach the top:

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