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Hey man. You have more influence and power here than the person you are replying to. Maybe use it to set the tone you want cultivated?: https://news.ycombinator

• dang 4y ago
  You're at least partly right and may be quite right, but I did choose that word consciously. The difference between what I wrote here and the moderation boilerplate I traditionally post (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20destroys&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) is that I used a word with a bit more energy in it. I did that because I feel like the culture here might be ready to take a step further toward recognizing that sort of comment as what we're trying to avoid (because it gets in the way of what we are trying for). Also, I was careful to use a word that is only about the content and in no way personal.