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Your point is good, but the profane is inappropriate.
by ctdonath 5y ago
Your point is good, but the profane is inappropriate.
- mrtesthah 5y agoPerhaps profane words are appropriate and suited to naming a profane architectural concept.
- Espressosaurus 5y agoNo it's not.
- throwawayninja 5y agoI find the profanity nicely limited and appropriate; if the comment had gone on to curse institutions in general / not share a constructive anecdote that's where I'd call it inappropriate.
- ctdonath 5y agoYou don’t even see the problem. Try using “Mohammed” in the same context.
- dang 5y agoThere's no rule against profanity on HN. It's maybe loosely correlated with breaking the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - for example the one asking people not to fulminate), but obviously not always. We're not Bowdlers here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20bowdler&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...