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That's a clever debate tactic - declaring that comments which disagree with you are uncivil, by the mere virtue of disagreeing with you.
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
That's a clever debate tactic - declaring that comments which disagree with you are uncivil, by the mere virtue of disagreeing with you.
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- yosamino 10y agoI think you're going about this a bit too simple and too confrontational. Your original comment started out with a generalizing remark which I felt to be uncivil and I called out out on it. I didn't actually completely disagree with the rest of your comment. Do you understand this ? You raised a perfectly valid point. My only disagreement with you is that you decided it is good etiquette to insult a whole group of people by implying they have the real-world capacity of children. I will repeat it again for you: * I disagree with what I thought was an insulting remark. * I thought the points you made afterwards were valid and intriguing Please do not try to misunderstand me on purpose again.
- mercer 10y agoFor what it's worth, I usually upvote yummyfajitas' comments and I find him/her a very valuable part of HN, but in this particular case I downvoted because I think they erred on the side of insulting in their comment. Judging by the gray, others might've felt the same way. In my opinion it distracts from the actual points that were made. That said, it is a decent possible that no insult was intended, so I'd suggest we just move on and discuss the content rather than the tone.
- dang 10y agoFWIW I think yosamino's objection there plainly shows why your comment was wrong and indeed uncivil, and not just a matter of 'tone'. In fact I was going to post much the same thing until I saw that he or she already had. I'm a little surprised that you can't concede a point and instead responded with so weak a distraction.