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>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http
by garrettgrimsley 11y ago
>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoMy statement was neither something I wouldn't say face-to-face, nor gratuitously negative.
- hderms 11y agoIt comes off as unpalatable, to say the least. You were assuming malice in the other poster and then went on a minor tirade without sufficient prompting.
- asveikau 11y agoThe comment being replied to was also rather uncivil by a certain definition, assuming the commenter was unfamiliar with what is by now very cliched literature and explaining it in a somewhat condescending tone, as if to a child, when in truth there was a very substantive point being made.