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Your comments violate rule #1 of Hacker News comments. > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more ci
by erulabs 8y ago
Your comments violate rule #1 of Hacker News comments.
> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We're discussing ideas here, there is no reason presuppose others ideas or behave snarkily.
- trishmapow2 8y agoI think you replied to the wrong person.
- erulabs 8y agoTo both of them, but in the case of stillbourne particularly, because he is responding to every post in this thread with that tone.
- stillbourne 8y agoI don't think he's being entirely partial in targeting me. One of my replies was to him, in that reply I was mostly civil with the exception that I accused him of being a libertarian. My comment got downvoted to oblivion anyway.
- stillbourne 8y agoI was not trying to come off as snarky. I was being civil, My first and my second comment were actually civil but as others attempted to offer retorts to my metaphor it sort of degraded. I didn't get real snarky until vitaliksghost called me an asshat. I'll exit the conversation now.