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Please do not insinuate that someone did not read an article. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by underseacables 6y ago
Please do not insinuate that someone did not read an article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- loceng 6y agoThey didn't insinuate - they outright listed it as an option, noting the "or".
- btilly 6y agoThe "or" in that statement read as they did none of those things. Not that they failed one of them but not the others.
- cambalache 6y agoHow can you fail to understand an article you didnt read? OP is right.
- btilly 6y agoThe only thing wrong is that that poster assumed the result. Which is not yet proven. But the most likely result is predictable from the fact that Facebook chose this path and what their incentives are. And if the result is wrong, the Oversight board will have problems just as big from the other side. Welcome to the world of unpleaseant political realities....
- bzb6 6y agoThere should be a name for this fallacy of “I’m right because I’m quoting the guidelines”. Ad guidelineum fallacy. Sometimes it’s crystal clear someone hasn’t read the article. Nothing wrong with pointing that out.