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>>M0r13n+(OP)
No offense to our German audience, but this type of rude and unfriendly cutting-off totally has "typical German big-business behavior" written all over it.

>>daneel+M6
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470266.

>>dang+FA
I had no such intention with my post. This feels like an offensive accusation.

>>daneel+6F
Oh I certainly believe you that you had no such intention, but we have to go by effects, not intent. I've written about this many times, so if you or anyone want further explanation, you can find it at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

In the case of your comment, pejorative generalizations about national groups counts as nationalistic flamebait (that is, it has the effect, in the general case, of provoking nationalistic flamewar) whether you intended that or not.