I get where you're coming from and you didn't offend me at all. I'd just been looking at the top comments of a bunch of HN threads and thinking "why does this p

I get where you're coming from and you didn't offend me at all. I'd just been looking at the top comments of a bunch of HN threads and thinking "why does this place seem so unfriendly". Your comment isn't anywhere close to being the worst, it just happened to be the one I responded to. And being direct isn't a bad thing either, my point here wasn't "don't be direct or concise, you'll offend people" but "assuming everyone here is reasonable, disagreements are likely due to differences in experience and you'll have a more productive discussion by figuring out the differences than simply stating opinions".