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You called another human being a 'thing', and then corrected it to '"person"' (with the quotation marks). And now, of course, you'd like others to follow the r
by zorpner 8y ago
You called another human being a 'thing', and then corrected it to '"person"' (with the quotation marks). And now, of course, you'd like others to follow the rules.
You disgust me, because you are disgusting.
- dang 8y agoThat's egregious. You can't comment like this, regardless of how bad another comment was. Commenters to HN need to either be civil or not post. These high-dudgeon internet spats would be merely ludicrous if they didn't also have the potential to destroy what little community we have here. Both you and hitekker injected poisons: he by trolling the thread by being vicious while pretending not to, and you with a trope of the aggressive online shaming culture. We've all seen what these things lead to elsewhere, so we have no choice but to ban people if they do them repeatedly here. Please don't.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThen delete the comments. If we're not supposed to respond to something that terrible, don't leave it on the site.
- dang 8y agoWhat you're not supposed to do is take someone else's bad comment as a license to violate the rules yourself. HN does 'delete' comments in one way (flagging by user or moderator), but this is not a complete solution because such comments appear before they are killed.