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"Poison" is a rather tendentious way to describe that NB...The words in my signature didn't come from a random sampling of the dictionary...they were from a sc
by 001sky 11y ago
"Poison" is a rather tendentious way to describe that
NB...The words in my signature didn't come from a random sampling of the dictionary...they were from a screen grab of HN moderation tools...
On the topic of changing subjects, no not really.
Those words are outrageously inflamatory.
- dang 11y agoNobody found them inflammatory when they sat in the public HN source code for years, but once they appeared in an accidental screenshot, they became outrageous! We're happy to answer good-faith questions about HN moderation, but this seems like trying to stir up drama.
- 001sky 11y agoThe verbiage of 'poisoning the well' is a well understood figure of speech.