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I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm interested to know why you feel that way. "It's open source, so it's your fault something doesn't meet your preferences" i
by stonogo 7y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm interested to know why you feel that way. "It's open source, so it's your fault something doesn't meet your preferences" is an extremely common conversation bomb in this space. I included the opening phrase to highlight the fact that I'm aware of the possibility that this was a bad-faith response, but I chose to interpret it in the best possible light.
What's gratuitous? Is "naive" considered an insult on Hacker News?
- dang 7y agoSure, naive is a pejorative. But the insinuation of "deliberate attempt to mislead" is worse. The site guidelines ask everyone simply to assume good faith, so there's no need to highlight the possibility of bad faith. Doing that doesn't add any information and just distracts from the rest of your comment.
- throwaway2048 7y agoSmarmy replies like "just send in the patches" are at least as toxic and assuming bad faith as what op said, yet are completely unchecked.
- dang 7y agoIf you're talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830097 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830097, that's not what jsty said. Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. It may have been a bit of a stock comment, but I see no evidence that it wasn't in good faith.