Talking about conflict of interest in general is fine, but making it be about one person is almost never fine. Egregious cases might be different, but to use it as a routine device in an argument is a personal attack and doesn&#x27;t belong here. This is important because people on the internet are much too quick to jump to such conclusions about people they disagree with. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;prefix=true&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;query=by:dang%20astroturf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;prefix=true&amp;page=0&amp;dateR...</a> if you want to read about our thinking on this; there&#x27;s a lot of material there.<p>&gt; <i>contradicting me is not a personal attack.</i><p>You&#x27;ve moved the goalposts though. If I contradicted you by saying you were lying for personal gain, that would be.