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I feel like this comment would be totally complete without the first 5 words, which serve to make it condescending. Part of the goal of this community is for i
by akerl_ 7y ago
I feel like this comment would be totally complete without the first 5 words, which serve to make it condescending.
Part of the goal of this community is for its participants to learn things they don’t know; the tone implied by the intro to your comment makes it seem offensive that somebody wouldn’t realize US non-profit status still allows for salaries and benefits for their staff.
https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- velcrovan 7y agoPoint taken.
- Aeolun 7y agoI think that to a point this is caused by the attitude in OP’s own comments. While it would be nice if it was possible to completely ignore it, I don’t think that’s realistically possible.
- akerl_ 7y agoPerhaps I’m overly optimistic. I’m also optimistic enough to believe that the comment I responded to wasn’t aiming to be condescending; the phrasing was the kind of thing that could very well have sounded jovial in speech among friends. I tend to think that’s the more common failing here: people type the way they’d speak if they were having a chat at the pub after work, and a lot of nuance burns off in the speech-to-text conversion. In any case, the site guidelines ask us to counteract this by assuming good faith, and responding to the strongest interpretation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html