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Hey dang, I agree with your warnings down thread. I let the person I was responding to get to me and I should have conducted myself better. Sorry. I’m having a
by toasterlovin 7y ago
Hey dang, I agree with your warnings down thread. I let the person I was responding to get to me and I should have conducted myself better. Sorry. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the issue is with this particular comment, though.
- dang 7y agoI went back to look for the obvious flamebait which I saw in there, and realized that it was I who had misread your comment. Argh! I'm sorry. Moderation is guesswork done in haste, because that's the only way to get through the mountain of content that piles up every day. But it's really bad to get scoldings wrong. In case you're curious, I read your comment as from a Canadian perspective, referring to the U.S. as a second-world country as a snarky swipe. Most likely I was primed to do this because I'm Canadian and have sometimes heard people talk that way. But clearly you were making an economic argument with that statement, not taking a nationalistic swipe, so there was no need for a moderation reply. Now that I read more closely, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21495051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21495051 was the comment that actually did the thing I read into yours, so I'll post a moderation reply there.
- toasterlovin 7y agoNo worries. I definitely need to work on my tone when I get riled up (as evidenced by my remarks down thread; European chauvinism regarding the US is a pet peeve of mine), so the larger point still stands. Thanks again for what you do on here. HN is my favorite place to exchange ideas.
- dang 7y agoAppreciated. And given your username I hope you saw the toaster threads! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164014