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I'm going to ask again, aside from the word "moronic" which I called an opinion, not a person. What exactly is uncivil? I gave a cogent argument about the issue
by goldenkey 10y ago
I'm going to ask again, aside from the word "moronic" which I called an opinion, not a person. What exactly is uncivil? I gave a cogent argument about the issue at hand. If you have issue with a single word as a moderator, it would fit to specifically point that out, rather than call my entire post uncivil. This is clearly a decisive issue with strong opinions.
- dang 10y ago"Moronic" is a textbook example of calling names in the way the HN guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's bad anywhere, and the worst kind of thing to lead with. "You can go ahead and spout off" and "You can play coy semantics" come across as personal jabs. Such phrases are a kind of elbowing. You may feel that you didn't mean them personally, but the person who gets the elbow typically doesn't agree. This is the path to degraded discourse, so please don't do it here.
- goldenkey 10y agoOkay, thanks for the explanations. I will do my best to avoid these things in the future. Cheers.