Why is it off-topic? In my ~7 years on HN, I've only had comments detached as "off-topic" twice, both times in the past week and by you. Is HN just getting more heavy on moderation?
Although your question was well-intentioned, you inadvertently triggered a subthread that had nothing to do with the topic at hand (Product Hunt). Also, the point you were asking for clarification about happened to be made-up bullshit. That term isn't in wide use in SV; rather, the commenter was fabricating things. It would have been better to mark that comment off-topic rather than yours, since the rot started there, but then people would accuse us of censoring criticism of Silicon Valley.
Pretty sure the twice in one week thing is just randomness doing its usual. The intention behind HN moderation is to keep it pretty steady.
Thanks, dang. I know the moderation was most likely a coincidence and not some kind of personal vendetta or my commenting getting worse, but I couldn't help but wonder.
I believe that SV, with all its flaws, is as close to meritocracy as it gets (after professional sports?) and was really just wondering what "summers" meant.
No, I'm pretty sure sctb is a little to heavy-handed with this off-topic detachment bullshit.
He also detached my comment in which I responded directly to a statement that somebody made, but not the statement itself which. Both my comment and the statement were about the same exact thing.
It's not always obvious where to snip those threads, and yes, you have a point about that one. Whatever point you had, though, you more than ruined with this: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=13100359. That's the kind of thing that will get you banned here, regardless of how good your point was.
Edit: I see that we've had to warn you several times before. If you don't want to be banned, you need to change your ways on HN. I'm not going to ban you in this case because the proximate cause was something we did. But the pattern is something you need to work on.
