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Sorry, I didn't mean it as a personal attack. I meant it as a statement of fact.
by ripdog 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean it as a personal attack. I meant it as a statement of fact.
- dang 9y agoIf you use negatively charged language about the person you're talking to, you're taking a big step away from factual exchange. On an internet forum, where we have precious little context to convey intent, that's almost always a destructive thing to do—and since it's both unnecessary and easy to avoid, we ask people to just not do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html