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Sorry, I have a hard time letting a comment I disagree with alone, and I will generally match the level of effort that the parent comment put in. I could work o

• dang 5y ago
  > generally match the level of effort that the parent comment put in Ah, that's the problem. Everyone overestimates how much badness the other person is adding and underestimates how much they themselves are adding. We all do this— objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, etc. But because this bias is so strong and so universal, if you gauge by other people's behavior you're going to badly miscalculate; and since the other person is probably doing the same, this is the way we get a downward spiral. The solution is to stick to the guidelines regardless of what other people are doing. That's not easy, of course, but it gets easier with practice, and it's the only way to avoid flamewar hell. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html