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I upvoted this but now I feel bad. On afterthought it is just another crap pointless story about an asshole being an asshole on the internet. Note to self: wait

by praptak 15y ago

I upvoted this but now I feel bad. On afterthought it is just another crap pointless story about an asshole being an asshole on the internet. Note to self: wait 3 minutes before upvoting "pitchforks and torches" stories. Read http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html again. Maybe raise a HN feature request for cancelling upvotes?

raganwald 15y ago
What I read was this: Shitty PR company does shitty job. Nothing special to see here, “90% of everything is CRUD.” Blogger sends self-important and condescending reply. Nothing to see here, I do similar things to head hunters, but ‘m honest about the fact that such things are all about me feeling clever, not about changing their world view. PR company doesn’t see the lighter side of being talked down to. VP falls into trap created by shitty software design that makes “reply all” easy when it’s usually wrong. Says something that just about everyone says at one time or another. Email exchange follows, wherein both parties ignore each other’s reasonable points and behave badly. Blogger decides to turn the “I’m important” knob to eleven, tweets about it, and then blogs about it, twice. How does this become HN #1 the day after Steve Jobs died? HAVE WE LEARNT NOTHING?????????
- stfu 15y ago
  Absolutely! I hope this was just some "accident" and HN is not becoming a place for bloggers to bitch about their personal "issues".
infinity 15y ago
Now I have read this story of a blogger I have never heard of and a company I don't care about. So, someone has pushed the wrong button and sent an insulting email out to everyone. Instead of "I'm sorry", there is some kind of flame war on Twitter, which nobody will remember tomorrow. It's not exactly what I would file under "deeply interesting". I would have loved to read a story about kindness. Kindness is leet.
dasil003 15y ago
I don't think it's pointless. The fact is that if we're not careful it's easy for any of us to become assholes "just doing our job". Furthermore, the global connectivity has a homogenizing effect whereby if someone is successful by being an asshole, pretty much everyone else has to (or feels they have to) just to keep up. Therefore I'm always happy for someone with half-decent principles to come out in defiance of the status quo, even if it is pitchforks and torches. At least people still care.
- praptak 15y ago
  Calling people you depend on "bitches" is not the status quo, it doesn't make anyone successful and I don't believe everyone feels they have to do it to keep up. It is not something that needs people with strong principles to speak out against.

by praptak 15y ago

raganwald 15y ago

What I read was this: Shitty PR company does shitty job. Nothing special to see here, “90% of everything is CRUD.” Blogger sends self-important and condescending reply. Nothing to see here, I do similar things to head hunters, but ‘m honest about the fact that such things are all about me feeling clever, not about changing their world view. PR company doesn’t see the lighter side of being talked down to. VP falls into trap created by shitty software design that makes “reply all” easy when it’s usually wrong. Says something that just about everyone says at one time or another. Email exchange follows, wherein both parties ignore each other’s reasonable points and behave badly. Blogger decides to turn the “I’m important” knob to eleven, tweets about it, and then blogs about it, twice. How does this become HN #1 the day after Steve Jobs died? HAVE WE LEARNT NOTHING?????????

stfu 15y ago
Absolutely! I hope this was just some "accident" and HN is not becoming a place for bloggers to bitch about their personal "issues".

infinity 15y ago

Now I have read this story of a blogger I have never heard of and a company I don't care about. So, someone has pushed the wrong button and sent an insulting email out to everyone. Instead of "I'm sorry", there is some kind of flame war on Twitter, which nobody will remember tomorrow. It's not exactly what I would file under "deeply interesting". I would have loved to read a story about kindness. Kindness is leet.

dasil003 15y ago

I don't think it's pointless. The fact is that if we're not careful it's easy for any of us to become assholes "just doing our job". Furthermore, the global connectivity has a homogenizing effect whereby if someone is successful by being an asshole, pretty much everyone else has to (or feels they have to) just to keep up. Therefore I'm always happy for someone with half-decent principles to come out in defiance of the status quo, even if it is pitchforks and torches. At least people still care.

praptak 15y ago
Calling people you depend on "bitches" is not the status quo, it doesn't make anyone successful and I don't believe everyone feels they have to do it to keep up. It is not something that needs people with strong principles to speak out against.