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teddyh, do realize the person you are responding to is the moderator of HN?

• teddyh 5y ago
  As it happens, no. I almost never look at usernames, as the design of HN discourages from doing so, by making user names hard to read. And even if I had, is moderatorial infallibility a dogma? Put another way, does any conversation improve by “do you know who I am?”? What is the purpose of your comment? To make me retract my comment because I didn’t know who I was disagreeing with?
  • skinnymuch 5y ago
    The OP may have not necessarily been doing something along the lines of appeal to authority. They could have just been informing you. We are supposed to take good faith assumptions, right? OTOH, I feel you with what you wrote. In general the things you wrote are unfortunately common. Your second sentence about never looking at usernames and so on. People have befriended either for networking purposes or otherwise, others on HN. It doesn’t have to be a cold straight forward only place
    • teddyh 5y ago
      > They could have just been informing you. Possibly, and they are free to tell me that; I did ask them what they meant, after all.