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I think the more practical piece of advice is for people like zestyping to constructively offer their (valid) perspective on writing style without personalizing

I think the more practical piece of advice is for people like zestyping to constructively offer their (valid) perspective on writing style without personalizing the criticism. I recognize however that offering such advice may be a fruitless endeavor depending on the person (like expecting a leopard to change its spots). Source: zestyping needlessly insulted me in front of colleagues over 10 years ago and it still stings a bit :-D

zestyping 8y ago
I think that practical advice is good. Publicly deriding me as having an irreparable character flaw, based on something I said over ten years ago, which I can't possibly defend or apologize for because I have no idea who you are or what you're referring to—doesn't that seem a little low, though? It sounds like this is still bothering you after all this time. Please consider reaching out to me (my e-mail address is my HN username at gmail); I'd be glad if we could sort this out in a private conversation. I can't promise that I'll take back what I said without knowing what it was, but I will do my best to understand what you experienced and why it was upsetting to you.