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Ok, 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

• dang 9y ago
  What 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.