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Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead
by meichenf 10y ago
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zanethomas 10y agoI would say it to his face, but point taken. :)
- colejohnson66 10y agoFair enough, but just because you'd say it to someone's face doesn't make it civil
- zanethomas 10y agoBut here's the problem with censorship (which you have said the previous writer should impose upon himself): I consider what Facebook is doing to be far more uncivil than use of the word Fuck. Should the word Facebook be censored because what it refers to offends me?