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I'm not talking about his point, I'm talking about the kind of tone calling a stranger an idiot.

• cyberpunk 10y ago
  Should I have danced around my view of his post to more subtly imply how I view it without actually using the words instead of just straight out saying it like I did? I'm not attacking the person; calling someone an idiot does appear to be a personal attack, but it was asked as a question -- I was trying to convey my bewilderment at how anyone could share his views ("you like pepsi over coke?! what are you some kind of hippy?! -- etc!) Come on, we're grown up and this is our area of expertise, why should we censor ourselves -- I'm not sure how else I could have expressed my view on the whole thing so succinctly tbh. You knew what I meant right off didn't you? Are you offended on the authors behalf? Do you think that person, who is clearly an experienced technologist and who appears to have spoken at a conference, who has views on what is a pretty insider issue and has spawned a debate on the whole thing on hackernews is going to be offended because someone on the internet thinks it's stupid? If he is; then I'd like him to know that it wasn't my intention to offend but also -- this is the internet and we all benefit from frank honest discussions, which I'd like to have and if you have issues with people questioning what you've written a bit aggressively then perhaps you shouldn't have written it. It's not like I'm going full youtube or /b/ here... This is a forum, and no personal attacks happened.