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You misread. Go back and reread. "they can do bursts of 38 miles per hour, ten faster than Usain Bolt" And that's not how you spell looses, you ignorant twat.
by koverstreet 9y ago
You misread. Go back and reread.
"they can do bursts of 38 miles per hour, ten faster than Usain Bolt"
And that's not how you spell looses, you ignorant twat.
- dang 9y agoThis sort of comment will get you banned on HN regardless of how bad what you're replying to was. You owe better to the community if you want to keep posting here, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html explains it too.
- koverstreet 9y agoOk, I deserved that. That said, it would be _really_ nice if the mods took those kinds of posts seriously - "I can't think of anything constructive to say, so I'll just find something to crap on and try to score points".
- dang 9y agoWhat makes you think we don't? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16024778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16024778 The problem is that what you did is a lot worse. As long as users are posting "you ignorant twat" and whatnot, it's hard to raise the bar much higher, for the same reason that police in high-crime neighborhoods don't spend much time on bike thefts. My dream for HN is that the community will learn to resist not only the crudest impulses but also the shallow and uncurious ones. Then we'd really get somewhere. But if such a process is possible at all, it's slow, and takes many steps backward as well as forward when new users arrive who aren't yet informed by the culture. When you post a comment like the one above, you're not just insulting a particular commenter, you're kicking down part of this building that we're all slowly trying to construct together. That's the bigger reason not to do it.