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This throwaway bit of arson (or at minimum, criminal negligence) set off a ridiculous religious flamewar. That means you did serious damage to this site. Please never do that again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032716 and marked it off-topic.



Calling this arson or criminal negligence is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

I just stated a fact here. :\

"She's physicist" ... "She is head of the CDU" ... the end.

Yes I saw what it brought here and after a few posts, I was like "Oh wait, this is an Internet Argument... better don't look at it anymore" but it was already too late.

Well, I'm sorry.


> Calling this arson or criminal negligence is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

Oh yes. I didn't mean it literally. It's just that starting a flamewar on purpose is one thing, and accidentally setting one off is another, but both are bad.

I'm sorry I came down on you that hard. Such flamewars are awful but they're also very much a community creation, which is why they're hard to prevent.


Well, my thought was the HN crowd would simply ignore this, acknowledge it or vote me down and be done with it.

Seems like religion is a heated topic, even here.

Next time I know better :)




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