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Hello, HN. On the rare occasion my writing has appeared on the front page, the tone of some anonymous commenters has left me feeling indignant. Last time, someo

Hello, HN. On the rare occasion my writing has appeared on the front page, the tone of some anonymous commenters has left me feeling indignant. Last time, someone called me a dog. Please keep in mind that a fellow human wrote this piece! You don't have to be nice, but at least be constructive.

sushshshsh 6y ago
The internet is the birth place and death place of lots of people's hopes and dreams for making humanity better :)
- walrus01 6y ago
  https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 In 2004 when that was published it had already been true since, in my opinion, at least 1996...
  - sushshshsh 6y ago
    Ahhahah, yes I completely agree, the moment my opinions are even plausibly associated to my name and people are watching, then I become the politest person possible
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oh_sigh 6y ago
Surely they were just making a wild assumption, because I've been informed that on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
- joejoebags 6y ago
  They made an educated guess—-and they were right.
CameronNemo 6y ago
Hi. I didn't read this. I don't go on medium.com. please consider another content distribution method.
- jdeibele 6y ago
  I did read it. But Medium.com doesn't seem to support RSS feeds at all. I would have liked to add a feed for your articles so I could read them even when they don't make the front page of HN.
  - pedro1976 6y ago
    Here is a dynamic feed [0] as generated by rss-proxy [1]. Hope that does the job for you. [0] https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoemorrison.medium.com%2F&rule=DIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3ESECTION%3EDIV%3EH1%3EA&output=ATOM https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoemor... [1] https://gitlab.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://gitlab.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
  - benrapscallion 6y ago
    Medium provides RSS feeds. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-Using-RSS-feeds-of-profiles-and-publications https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-Using-RS...
TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago
Let me assure you that, in general, dogs are way better people than humans.

sushshshsh 6y ago

The internet is the birth place and death place of lots of people's hopes and dreams for making humanity better :)

walrus01 6y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 In 2004 when that was published it had already been true since, in my opinion, at least 1996...
- sushshshsh 6y ago
  Ahhahah, yes I completely agree, the moment my opinions are even plausibly associated to my name and people are watching, then I become the politest person possible

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oh_sigh 6y ago

Surely they were just making a wild assumption, because I've been informed that on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

joejoebags 6y ago
They made an educated guess—-and they were right.

CameronNemo 6y ago

Hi. I didn't read this. I don't go on medium.com. please consider another content distribution method.

jdeibele 6y ago
I did read it. But Medium.com doesn't seem to support RSS feeds at all. I would have liked to add a feed for your articles so I could read them even when they don't make the front page of HN.
- pedro1976 6y ago
  Here is a dynamic feed [0] as generated by rss-proxy [1]. Hope that does the job for you. [0] https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoemorrison.medium.com%2F&rule=DIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3EDIV%3ESECTION%3EDIV%3EH1%3EA&output=ATOM https://rssproxy.migor.org/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoemor... [1] https://gitlab.com/damoeb/rss-proxy https://gitlab.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
- benrapscallion 6y ago
  Medium provides RSS feeds. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-Using-RSS-feeds-of-profiles-and-publications https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-Using-RS...

TheGrassyKnoll 6y ago

Let me assure you that, in general, dogs are way better people than humans.