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It's not a put down to say that there are people without knowledge of Lichess's operations or infrastructure. I'm one of those people. I don't presume to have a
by jeremyjh 5y ago
It's not a put down to say that there are people without knowledge of Lichess's operations or infrastructure. I'm one of those people. I don't presume to have any knowledge of effective cost cutting measures. Others do.
- dang 5y agoIt's a putdown to snarkily sneer at others in the community, which is why the site guidelines specifically ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I understand the temptation to do this—we all feel it. That's why that guideline is in there. Such comments reliably lead to lower-quality threads, because they don't add anything that anyone can learn from. They just assert the commenter as somehow different from / better than others. That's not to say the comments you were criticizing aren't bad. Of course, shallow dismissals are bad. But it only makes things worse to respond with a different sort of shallow dismissal.