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The moral of this post really falls flat coming from this author, most of whose posts are snarky, passive-aggressive rants where she rants about someone's alleg

The moral of this post really falls flat coming from this author, most of whose posts are snarky, passive-aggressive rants where she rants about someone's alleged incompetence or something similar.

enraged_camel 5y ago
This is a really weird ad hominem that is unrelated to the post itself.
- IceDane 5y ago
  Ad hominem? It seems pretty relevant to me that the author mostly writes snarky articles which directly contradict the moral of this story. For the record, I totally agree with the moral of the story. But we can't just blindly ignore context, and in this case the context is that the author regularly writes articles where someone else is ridiculed because the author has deemed them incompetent. In a similar vein, no one would just ignore it and praise Zuckerberg if he started discussing the importance of personal privacy on his personal blog.
- Nebasuke 5y ago
  I have to agree with the OC. I read this post, the reply post (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/11/07/select/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/11/07/select/) and "The ONE" (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/) post and I too was struck by the passive aggressive/defensive tone. To me it really clashed with the original post which concludes we need guidance/mentorship/reference points. Most of the comments in Hackernews are constructive or genuinely curious, don't just dismiss the author and instead provide things to learn. For the author to then write a reply and dismiss all these comments as comments that are really saying "I am THE ONE. You only need to know me. I am better than all of you." is just plain rude and completely counter to their own point.
mwcampbell 5y ago
The ending: > It's a massive problem, and we're all partly responsible. I'm trying to take a bite out of it now by writing stuff like this. suggests to me that maybe she has recently had a change of heart about such rants. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, because we all need to give each other the benefit of the doubt these days.
dang 5y ago
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing this!

The moral of this post really falls flat coming from this author, most of whose posts are snarky, passive-aggressive rants where she rants about someone's alleged incompetence or something similar.

enraged_camel 5y ago

This is a really weird ad hominem that is unrelated to the post itself.

IceDane 5y ago
Ad hominem? It seems pretty relevant to me that the author mostly writes snarky articles which directly contradict the moral of this story. For the record, I totally agree with the moral of the story. But we can't just blindly ignore context, and in this case the context is that the author regularly writes articles where someone else is ridiculed because the author has deemed them incompetent. In a similar vein, no one would just ignore it and praise Zuckerberg if he started discussing the importance of personal privacy on his personal blog.
Nebasuke 5y ago
I have to agree with the OC. I read this post, the reply post (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/11/07/select/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/11/07/select/) and "The ONE" (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/) post and I too was struck by the passive aggressive/defensive tone. To me it really clashed with the original post which concludes we need guidance/mentorship/reference points. Most of the comments in Hackernews are constructive or genuinely curious, don't just dismiss the author and instead provide things to learn. For the author to then write a reply and dismiss all these comments as comments that are really saying "I am THE ONE. You only need to know me. I am better than all of you." is just plain rude and completely counter to their own point.

mwcampbell 5y ago

The ending: > It's a massive problem, and we're all partly responsible. I'm trying to take a bite out of it now by writing stuff like this. suggests to me that maybe she has recently had a change of heart about such rants. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, because we all need to give each other the benefit of the doubt these days.

dang 5y ago

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing this!