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It wasn’t a personal swipe, it was a friendly joke (I’m a front-end dev too). What qualifies as an unsubstantive comment? People around here are so uptight some

• dang 9y ago
  Your intent is obvious to you but only to you, and if you don't find an unambiguous way to encode it into your message, few people are going to get it. One problem here might be that you're applying the standard of in-person conversation where it doesn't apply, at least not without modification. Interpreting my response, and that of users flagging, as "uptight" is a similar confusion. In person we'd all just laugh at the friendly joke and respond in kind. But the conditions are quite different here, as measured by how frequently such comments turn into brawls, and if we want to keep this place going for thoughtful conversation, we need standards that work on the internet.
  • aalleavitch 9y ago
    Perhaps you’re right; it’s the kind of comment that would be obvious to my group of friends in other online communities, but I’m making too many assumptions about the audience here and how adversarial discussions can get. It’s one of the reasons I struggle with bigger online communities where you can’t as easily develop a report. Next time I’m joking around I’ll try to slip in a disclaimer even if it takes some of the oomph out of my joke :P.
    • dang 9y ago
      Thanks!