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No matter what sort of threads we find ourselves in, the guidelines ask us not to comment uncivilly like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html ht
by sctb 10y ago
No matter what sort of threads we find ourselves in, the guidelines ask us not to comment uncivilly like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- intortus 10y agoIn what way was I uncivil? They composed a strawman argument and attributed it to me, hence they pulled it out of their ass.
- dang 10y ago> straight out of your own ass > your loggorhea That is extremely uncivil (and a bannable offense here). If that isn't obvious to you, simply refraining from calling names and slinging personal pejoratives will get you a long way. The point is to post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
- intortus 10y agoJust for the record, neither of those statements invoke namecalling and they clearly refer to the person's argument, not the person.
- dang 10y agoI don't agree. What could be more personal than one's own ass? Whether we agree definitionally or not, the standard here is well established, and when accounts can't or won't abide by it, we ban them.