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Agree with you that we should be gentler on people when they are just introducing ideas to the world. I disagree that this is not HN's culture. Example, read th
by frankdenbow 6y ago
Agree with you that we should be gentler on people when they are just introducing ideas to the world. I disagree that this is not HN's culture. Example, read the dropbox launch thread, among many others. Usually when I come to HN I expect the top comment to be some pseudo-intellectual takedown of someone else's hard work.
- blhack 6y agoThe dropbox thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 I don't agree with you that people are being jerks there in the way that they are here.
- DanBC 6y agoBut there was the "avoid gratuitous negativity" that got added to the guidelines in the years after the dropbox thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916