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I'm glad that HN is a place where people are normally really helpful to each other, but I see it even occasionally here. On the other hand, let's not take it t
by PakG1 16y ago
I'm glad that HN is a place where people are normally really helpful to each other, but I see it even occasionally here.
On the other hand, let's not take it too far. It's nice for people to have a little bit of backbone. They don't need to endure jackasses unnecessarily, but there are times when criticism is rightly required and backbone is rightly needed to respond well.
- gte910h 16y agoYes, however the criticism the author is complaining about it not any criticism at all, it's about the low order, non substantive, non-topical type. Spolsky or PG wrote up a piece on this a bit back.