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Thank's for your valuable anecdote. We can now safely ignore all the people who did get a disease or toxins doing the same.

iak8god 10y ago
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
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- LionessLover 10y ago
  Why would I not say that face to face? Do you think any negative reply to anyone is bad? What horrible rose-colored world do you live in? How about you adjust your sensitivity setting? It's on an unhelpfully low level that prevents normal function and utilization of normal communication. I also find it how remarkably consistent my experience is that people who complain about "tone" never, ever have anything to say about the actual subject.
  - o_____________o 10y ago
    You could have communicated the same idea without petty, hostile sarcasm.
    - LionessLover 10y ago
      Sarcasm is a valuable tool in the human communication arsenal. If you want to do without it, be my guest, but don't try to dictate your subjective preferences to others who have what I would claim is a more mature and more healthy attitude towards the beauty and variety in human language. And the "petty" is all in your head. There are too many people who blame others for what's in their own head.
      - o_____________o 10y ago
        Sarcasm can be very valuable. It can also be used to contemptuously insult someone when a simple rebuttal would suffice. The latter is an immature, weak intellectual position (see Appeal to Ridicule and Question Begging Epithet) that says nothing more than "you are so wrong as to look asinine". This only fosters more emotional, insult-riddled dialogue, which is why the user above quoted HN guidelines, which you are now impotently raging against. This is a pretty civil place, we like to keep it that way.
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  - webkike 10y ago
    The parent is taken literally straight from the submission guideline.
  - dang 10y ago
    Drive-by snark is deprecated on HN, but personal attack, which you crossed into here ("What horrible rose-colored world do you live in? How about you adjust your sensitivity setting"), and have unfortunately done previously as well, is outright not allowed. Please stop doing this and post civilly and substantively, or not at all, from now on.
- op00to 10y ago
  I would totally say this face to face, then back away slowly from the person who is quite possibly an E. coli carrier from eating raw meat. :)
webkike 10y ago
I'm pretty sure their comment was sarcastic.
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dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836339 and marked it off-topic.

iak8god 10y ago

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

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LionessLover 10y ago
Why would I not say that face to face? Do you think any negative reply to anyone is bad? What horrible rose-colored world do you live in? How about you adjust your sensitivity setting? It's on an unhelpfully low level that prevents normal function and utilization of normal communication. I also find it how remarkably consistent my experience is that people who complain about "tone" never, ever have anything to say about the actual subject.
- o_____________o 10y ago
  You could have communicated the same idea without petty, hostile sarcasm.
  - LionessLover 10y ago
    Sarcasm is a valuable tool in the human communication arsenal. If you want to do without it, be my guest, but don't try to dictate your subjective preferences to others who have what I would claim is a more mature and more healthy attitude towards the beauty and variety in human language. And the "petty" is all in your head. There are too many people who blame others for what's in their own head.
    - o_____________o 10y ago
      Sarcasm can be very valuable. It can also be used to contemptuously insult someone when a simple rebuttal would suffice. The latter is an immature, weak intellectual position (see Appeal to Ridicule and Question Begging Epithet) that says nothing more than "you are so wrong as to look asinine". This only fosters more emotional, insult-riddled dialogue, which is why the user above quoted HN guidelines, which you are now impotently raging against. This is a pretty civil place, we like to keep it that way.
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- webkike 10y ago
  The parent is taken literally straight from the submission guideline.
- dang 10y ago
  Drive-by snark is deprecated on HN, but personal attack, which you crossed into here ("What horrible rose-colored world do you live in? How about you adjust your sensitivity setting"), and have unfortunately done previously as well, is outright not allowed. Please stop doing this and post civilly and substantively, or not at all, from now on.
op00to 10y ago
I would totally say this face to face, then back away slowly from the person who is quite possibly an E. coli carrier from eating raw meat. :)

webkike 10y ago

I'm pretty sure their comment was sarcastic.

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dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836339 and marked it off-topic.