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Hi, I've reviewed my comment and unfortunately I honestly can't see what's wrong with it. I've made two points about factual errors and I asked a rhetorical qu
by _0ffh 5y ago
Hi, I've reviewed my comment and unfortunately I honestly can't see what's wrong with it.
I've made two points about factual errors and I asked a rhetorical question to drive my point home. I highlighted, but deliberately didn't further comment on, the unnecessarily loaded language of the parent comment.
Although I'm told I come from a culture that tends towards speaking somewhat bluntly, I'm truly surprised and a bit confused to have my comment come across as "flamewar style", when what I was going for was more along the lines of "clinically detached rebuttal".
- dang 5y agoI read HN comments rather superficially (just because time/quantity is so low). From that perspective, when a comment starts with a putdown like "Sorry, that's just wrong" and ends with "Would you seriously try and deny", it's already clear that it isn't curious conversation. When I read the comment more closely it doesn't seem as bad. If you'd dropped the swipe in the first sentence, it would've been ok. I'm sure it's true that culture enters into this, but given that HN is a highly international/multicultural forum, what that unfortunately means is that we all have to neutralize ourselves a little bit in order to be understood correctly. or something like that.
- _0ffh 5y agoOkay, thanks for the heads up and explanation, I'll try to keep it in mind!