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You're absolutely right - I'm used to talking to reasonably well-adjusted, grown up adults with a thick skin and a sense of humour. That's often not the case he
by lacampbell 7y ago
You're absolutely right - I'm used to talking to reasonably well-adjusted, grown up adults with a thick skin and a sense of humour. That's often not the case here, so unless you agonise over every single word and avoid speaking directly, your posts will go grey.
Again, I'm a bad cultural fit. Not apportioning blame, I'm sure many here see me as a rude provocateur for my cavalier use of the word 'obsess'. That's life.
- dTal 7y agoBut you are apportioning blame. You are calling HN a bunch of unbalanced, immature children with a thin skin and no sense of humor. But, if you've such a thick skin, why obsess over downvotes? They mean nothing except that your post annoyed someone enough for them to click a little button. If you're so convinced it's HN and not you that's the problem, why should it bother you?
- liability 7y ago> "You are calling HN a bunch of unbalanced, immature children with a thin skin and no sense of humor." Did you not say essentially the same? Worded differently, but a comment to the same effect. Why hassle that commenter over different wordings of the same concept?
- lacampbell 7y agoBut you are apportioning blame. You are calling HN a bunch of unbalanced, immature children with a thin skin and no sense of humor. I'm describing it from my point of view - I'm not so egocentric to see my perspective as universally true. Hence why I attempted to see it from their perspective. But, if you've such a thick skin, why obsess over downvotes? I didn't bring it up, someone else did and I offered an explanation.