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Well being nice and polite is part of the guidelines here, which is not such a bad thing. But the pretentiousness annoys me sometimes, at the end of the day it
by gitgud 6y ago
Well being nice and polite is part of the guidelines here, which is not such a bad thing.
But the pretentiousness annoys me sometimes, at the end of the day it's another forum of people who don't think they're part of a hive-mind... which we definitely are
- cambalache 6y agoBeing nice is great, being fake-nice is not, sometimes politeness is a facade to hide passive-aggressiveness and up-you-up-manship. HN readership is as establishment and conventional as it goes, it is the "study hard for the SAT/GRE/GMAT" crowd.