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The top comment in this thread made as much a dismissal and attack of the lifestyle described in the fine article, as your comment's parent was on the platform
by rosser 10y ago
The top comment in this thread made as much a dismissal and attack of the lifestyle described in the fine article, as your comment's parent was on the platform the top comment's author makes a living supporting.
That is, it is equally legitimate — or illegitimate — for someone to call another person's lifestyle "positively abominable" as it is for a third person to be all, "Eww, WordPress," at the first.
In fact, I'm pretty sure highlighting that fact was the point of that comment.
- RodericDay 10y agoIt's very interesting how people apply very different standards for the in-group and the out-group. A Hackernewser making fun of a blog writer is fine, but a hackernewser making fun of another hackernewser is extremely impolite. I fully agree that that was the point of that comment.