It's not like I posted porn; it was just a comment, you guys truly are super sensitive over there in California.
Plus I really wanted to point out that 99% of the straight males in the world would do sexual things in their dreams if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
The big loud part in the center of of your brain is the sexual part, you are not programmed to enjoy flying that's why many of us don't enjoy that, and the little piece that may enjoy it is incidental, the only 4 hardwired desires are food, sleep, sex and offspring/family protectionism.
Lucid dreaming is real, being able to control what happens there is not (lack of evidence shows so)
> and the little piece that may enjoy it is incidental, the only 4 hardwired desires are food, sleep, sex and offspring/family protectionism.
I enjoy music and programming, where does that fit into that narrative? I also dream about a lot more varied things than those you list. Including flying, when I have a lucid dream.
Controlling what you do during a dream makes it a lucid dream. Saying there is an issue with them because nobody talks about satisfying their sexual desires is an odd argument to make, and may show your biases more than anything.
It isn't sensitivity in the way you're thinking. The issue is that unsubstantive comments grow like weeds if we let them. Since we don't want them to take over the site, we need to not let them.
When we post moderation comments here we're not making any statements about acceptability in general! Only about what tends to have a good vs. bad effect on HN, relative to the goals of the site (which are described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
HN is a specific kind of web site and all we care about is keeping it on track for its particular purpose. I'm sure those comments are entirely acceptable in many other contexts.
