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My favorite part of HN, the reason I prefer this news feed over any other, is because the comments are usually intelligent and civil. Your comment here is neit
by Floegipoky 11y ago
My favorite part of HN, the reason I prefer this news feed over any other, is because the comments are usually intelligent and civil.
Your comment here is neither, and it just turned a discussion about the morality of ad-blocking and the viability of ad-based revenue models into a dick measuring contest.
Not cool.
- bmelton 11y agoA more charitable reading of DanBC's comment is simply inquisitive. If we're going to hold civility in such high esteem, then we should also be assuming good faith, which it seems you have not done.
- pdabbadabba 11y agoHonestly now. I am as enthusiastic a practitioner of the principle of charity as anyone else, but that doesn't mean you have to ignore overwhelming signs of bad faith when they're staring you in the face. When Floegipoky decided DanBC's comment was probably not made in good faith, I don't think it's fair to characterize this as a mere assumption. More like an inference well supported by the available evidence.
- DanBC 11y agoSorry. Re-reading it it does come across that way, and deserves the downvotes. It wasn't intended that way though - I was genuinely just trying to see if people who'd used the Internet earlier were more aware of things like Boulder pledge. (Turns out several people who had significant involvement in Internet email at the time didn't know about it.)