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This is unnecessarily rude. Implying that a person needs a pacifier like an infant is snarky. > please don’t sneer As the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombina
by nindalf 5y ago
This is unnecessarily rude. Implying that a person needs a pacifier like an infant is snarky.
> please don’t sneer
As the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) say.
- ehnto 5y agoIt was a counterpoint to his sneer, I felt like it was a productive re-contextualization of their narrow viewpoint. I am really surprised people seem to be missing the parent comments snark but not mine, it was really on the nose.
- nindalf 5y agoIf you see someone sneering, then request them not to sneer. Link them to the HN guidelines. Counter-sneering ruins the discussion.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoI was sincerely not trying to be snarky. I'm sorry you took it that way. I am actually GenX, so I know all too well what it was like back in the days of paper maps and pay phones. I couldn't imagine going back as they seem barbaric now.
- ehnto 5y agoAh, my sincerest apologies. I guess it was hard for me to see it through any other lens, I was very much expecting a technophile versus traditionalist discourse to break out in this thread and so I was primed to read your words just one way. I even re-read your comment after others were discussing mine to make sure I wasn't being an idiot and was still certain. I suppose I was being an idiot! Sorry again, I shouldn't have been snarky in either case, I was just so darn ready to have that discussion.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoThanks for the apology ehnto. My OP should have been more clear in its intent.