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What is the point of your experiment? Insults like this are routinely flagged on HN. If it weren't, I suspect it would only be because it hadn't been seen by en
by grzm 9y ago
What is the point of your experiment? Insults like this are routinely flagged on HN. If it weren't, I suspect it would only be because it hadn't been seen by enough members or the mods.
- ForHackernews 9y agoMy point is that tons of people in this thread seem to think this style of communication is really great because it's emphatic and gets the point across clearly or something. I'm trying to highlight that maybe it's not so great if you're on the receiving end of it. I'm sure a bunch of hypocrites will flag me down, though.
- grzm 9y agoI've noticed others mention that it's context dependent: what's acceptable in some communities is not acceptable in others. Your comment, if meant in earnest, while it may be acceptable when uttered by Linus on the kernel mailing list (I'm extrapolating here based on the few comments I've perused in this thread), is not acceptable on HN. Given the different conditions, I don't think it would produce anything meaningful, whether it gets flagged or not. And given that you've prefaced it with "As an experiment, let's see if this comment gets flagged...", I suspect some that would otherwise flag it won't because it's clear it's not meant in earnest.
- ForHackernews 9y agoYeah, obviously comments on this shitty message board should have a much higher standard for civility and professionalism than the development process of a major operating system. /s