Comment by YeGoblynQueenne

St. Spyridon and all the saints, dude, where do you find the energy to write that much and read everything everyone else writes? I guess you use writing as a form of thinking, of course, but in any case you must really care about HN.

I had a disagreement a while ago with a user here and they said something that irked me so I asked them "is that the internet that you want?". And they seem to be taken aback by that because obviously there was some kind of internet that they wanted and that included a frank, but productive, exchange of views, and they seemed to agree their style of commenting wasn't conducive to that. So the conversation went a lot better afterwards. I have convinced myself that you, too, want a certain kind of internet -one where "curious conversation" can be had- and you're doing what you can to make HN, at least, that kind of internet. And I think it's working: the amount of flames and slagging matches on HN is near-zero and you still get to hear different opinions on everything (in fact, a few too many of those but, eh).

Which is to say, I didn't grumble for the flags to imply your moderation is one-sided, just to be clear. I was a bit surprised that the flags stood for two reasons: one, because I assumed when something gets flagged, it is brought to the attention of the moderation team and that makes it less likely that it will stay flagged if the flags are one-sided; and two, the reason I pointed out above, the scholarly credentials of the authors of the articles I posted.

Well you've answered both of those I guess. In particular:

>> It's not a repeatable process.

I understand that, but I tend to forget it. My bad.

I accept also that the ICJ case is "SNI". But the articles I posted were among the first to raise the issue in a scholarly manner, so I thought they were salient.

Btw- Bartov's text was really top-notch (I kind of disagree with him, though I have to defer to his obvious expertise). It's a bit dated now that so much time has passed and he's updated his opinion a bit (still not genocide) but anyway, for anyone interested in this subject and having an urgent need for a voice of reason amid the madness, for now at least he will do.