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This community can be fucking toxic sometimes, at least this person created something. Get off your high horse and write positive criticism / offer help / sugg

• EpicEng 8y ago
  >write positive criticism / offer help / suggest improvements or just stfu Interesting that you did exactly zero of the things you suggest (and used a throwaway knowing you'd be downvoted.)
  • FPGAhacker 8y ago
    What do you mean? Aside from the stfu, you quoted their constructive criticism. I don’t know what posts they were talking about though. I came late to this conversation and voting moved the interesting posts up already.
• j2bax 8y ago
  If I were posting my project to this community it would be for brutal honesty from my peers, not just to drive sales and get accolades.
• farleykr 8y ago
  There's a time/place for encouragement, and a time/place for criticism. I've only found a few comments in this thread that are even remotely derogatory or toxic. There's nothing toxic about blunt, honest, criticism. HN is known for this type of feedback anyways. It might be abrasive and tough to swallow but it's not toxic to tell someone their product needs work in a community that is arguably known for and built for just that kind of feedback. Not to mention that the folks bringing up issues with the product are providing detailed reasoning for their critiques and solutions. TL;DR Blunt, honest feedback != toxicity