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this here is why I don't consider HN a very good place for actual discourse. What you get is a lot of overly polite people afraid of getting on the bad side of
by celticmusic 7y ago
this here is why I don't consider HN a very good place for actual discourse. What you get is a lot of overly polite people afraid of getting on the bad side of dang.
If you don't drop it he'll start to harass you, to goad you into stepping over a line that he can then use as an excuse to up the ante, as it were.
It's best to just move on and realize you can't actually speak like a normal human being on these boards.
- codezero 7y agoI’ve been uncivil on HN from time to time and have never felt harassed by dang. If you’re being followed around, I suspect it’s because of a repeated and consistent pattern of unproductive soap boxing.
- celticmusic 7y agoI watched it happen to someone else, and it started because we were having a back and forth discussion and dang stepped in to berate the other person. I ended up defending the other person as I didn't consider anything they said to be problematic. OTOH, I value actual discourse over politeness. But dang decided that person didn't need to be on HN. But thank you for the assumptions, I appreciate them.
- codezero 7y agoSince you appreciate my assumptions, then I assume what I said applied to who you were interacting with. It’s very hard on an online forum to know if two people engaging in a debate have a shared intention in their communication. I trust dang to have a holistic view of good and bad behavior on HN.