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No, I'm telling you how I did in fact read it, but trying to be generous by saying that I'm not accusing you of meaning it that way.
by ajkjk 11y ago
No, I'm telling you how I did in fact read it, but trying to be generous by saying that I'm not accusing you of meaning it that way.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoI think you've confused "Generosity" and "Passive Aggression".
- ajkjk 11y agoI don't think so. I'm being generous in the sense that I'm open to multiple interpretations of what happened and I'm going out of my way to not assume (and to express that I do not assume) that you were being intentionally unpleasant. I'm happy to interpret it as an error. But I still want to express that I think your top comment was unpleasant, regardless of how unhappy it makes you to hear that (which is apparently a lot). Sure, you can tell me I shouldn't bother saying any of this, but I'm not really doing it for you; I want other Hacker News comment-browsers to be reminded not to do unpleasant things like that, and about how exactly they're unpleasant, and to do that I have to write something that's pretty much going to piss you off regardless of how I phrase it.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoI'm not pissed off, I'm just engaged by your combination of intelligence and poor socialization.