> deciding just based on a sentence or two that a question is low effort or not is usually not the way to go.
No one said that except you. Your responses are based on your hidden assumptions about the meanings of ambiguous, loaded terms, aka "arguing past each other."
Hey, dang, where are you, man? Gonna ban this guy for "ideological flamewar"?
Nah, this Dan is a founder, a YC alum with 11,000 karma points. He can say whatever he wants. At worst, he'd get a "Well, yeah, you're right, they are religious bigots, but please be more subtle about it." But he won't even get that, because no HN user with >=500 karma's going to flag his comment.
Of course, weberc2's comment is downvoted.
Nah, HN isn't biased to the left at all, dang. After all, people on both sides complain, therefore it must be perfectly balanced, right?
It's amusing how your account and the one you replied to were created within 2 weeks of each other, but his has 10 times the karma of yours. The hive mind here diligently keeps non-leftist accounts like yours below the "Hacker News poverty line" of 500 karma, so that you can't downvote their comments.