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I think your bar for good faith conversation is set unrealistically high. Outside of friends and family most people have no incentive to concede anything in a c
by verylittlemeat 9y ago
I think your bar for good faith conversation is set unrealistically high. Outside of friends and family most people have no incentive to concede anything in a conversation if they don't want to. Some people don't care at all about burning bridges to "win." For anonymous conversations on the internet this is almost the rule rather than the exception.
Don't get me wrong, I wish most people weren't assholes just as much as you do but it's a race to the bottom. If one person values "being right" they will take your good faith argument and eat you alive in public with no mercy.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoI think my expectations align with HN guidelines and with a fair amount of observable behavior here. Granted, some folks can't be arsed. (shrug)
- verylittlemeat 9y agoI guess you and I are reading a different hacker news then. I can hardly go one thread here that doesn't devolve into petty power jabs for internet points. I don't know how you can read the comments in this Damore thread and not agree that's the case. Of course, that's against the HN guidelines, but it's not exactly hard to follow the letter of the guidelines while breaking the spirit of them.
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- dang 9y agoIf you notice people doing that you should flag the comments. How to do this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.