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I would not want to work in an environment where strong emotional language used to criticize your work is not considered abusive. It's childish and counterprodu
by david-given 11y ago
I would not want to work in an environment where strong emotional language used to criticize your work is not considered abusive. It's childish and counterproductive. I'm not your enemy, I'm your ally --- making me hate you isn't going to make me want to work with you. If I'm wrong, say so, but do it politely.
I work with someone who has an amazing ability to tell people they're wrong and make them feel good about themselves. You come out of gruelling code reviews feeling hyped and enthusiastic about refactoring your code. It's a skill I'm not very good at and one I want to learn. That's professionalism in action.
- anonbanker 11y agoAnd we can see your net contributions to the kernel source tree as an example of the environment you choose to work in. but thank you for telling us your opinion anyway.
- dillera 11y agothis
- anonbanker 11y agoPlease don't make posts like this on HN. As bad as the SJW's are, I'd say "replying as upvote" kills the signal-to-noise ratio much more. I'm totally glad you agree with me (and thank you for taking the karma hit to post), but upvoting is enough to stave off the hoarde of downvoters. However, for anyone taking notice, "this'ing" a post is a great way to encourage parent downvotes, which is a far easier way to divebomb an opinion. Let's see if it becomes a tactic used in the future on HN.
- dang 11y agoPlease don't post uncivil comments to HN.
- anonbanker 11y agoI'm normally pretty good with your moderation. This one's a little vague. I worry that if I apply this uniformly, it'll effectively ban snark from my postings. I'll do my best to honor your request, though.
- dang 11y agoThanks for your openness here. You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to discuss it further. Short answer is that snark in general doesn't break the HN guidelines (though it is deprecated!) but when directed personally it probably does.
- anonbanker 11y ago> deprecated! totally using that in the future.