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You have, ironically, violated HN's rules here. Please do not use quotes for things that are not quotes. Please do not engage in name-calling.

by cxr 4y ago

Dalewyn 4y ago
The words "quote", "quotation", "mark", etc. do not appear anywhere within the HN Guidelines[1], to include any rules regarding quotation marks (there aren't any). To call out someone's behaviour is not name-calling as defined in the HN Guidelines[1]. Did I call the author an idiot or a moron or anything to that effect? No, I called out his behaviour as ignorant and arrogant, and called him a kid because he is a high school student which I presume to be less than 21 years old. On that note, the HN Guidelines state: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."[1] As such, please interpret "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted." in the strongest way possible: That using Github and other examples named and not named are not permitted. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cxr 4y ago
  > The words "quote", "quotation", "mark", etc. do not appear anywhere within the HN Guidelines[1], to include any rules regarding quotation marks (there aren't any). No, but they do appear in the two links I gave—which describe the sort of behavior that HNers are expected to observe, regardless of whether it's written in a mod comment or on a mod-controlled page titled "Hacker News Guidelines". If you think that's an inappropriate standard, then bring it up before just going ahead and doing it anyway, or leave for greener pastures. You succeed by being knowledgeable, considerate, cooperative, and also knowing where to draw your line in the sand—versus digging in (to defend the use of made up quotes and name-calling).
  - Dalewyn 4y ago
    dang would do well to formally add those rules to the HN Guidelines page, then. It is patently unreasonable to expect unstated rules to be followed.
    - cxr 4y ago
      Surprise! That doesn't happen because then you get people showing up trying to litigate them. PS: They're not unstated. I just linked to them; they can be read, ergo, they are stated.

You have, ironically, violated HN's rules here. Please do not use quotes for things that are not quotes. Please do not engage in name-calling.

by cxr 4y ago

You have, ironically, violated HN's rules here. Please do not use quotes for things that are not quotes. Please do not engage in name-calling.

Dalewyn 4y ago

The words "quote", "quotation", "mark", etc. do not appear anywhere within the HN Guidelines[1], to include any rules regarding quotation marks (there aren't any). To call out someone's behaviour is not name-calling as defined in the HN Guidelines[1]. Did I call the author an idiot or a moron or anything to that effect? No, I called out his behaviour as ignorant and arrogant, and called him a kid because he is a high school student which I presume to be less than 21 years old. On that note, the HN Guidelines state: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."[1] As such, please interpret "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted." in the strongest way possible: That using Github and other examples named and not named are not permitted. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

cxr 4y ago
> The words "quote", "quotation", "mark", etc. do not appear anywhere within the HN Guidelines[1], to include any rules regarding quotation marks (there aren't any). No, but they do appear in the two links I gave—which describe the sort of behavior that HNers are expected to observe, regardless of whether it's written in a mod comment or on a mod-controlled page titled "Hacker News Guidelines". If you think that's an inappropriate standard, then bring it up before just going ahead and doing it anyway, or leave for greener pastures. You succeed by being knowledgeable, considerate, cooperative, and also knowing where to draw your line in the sand—versus digging in (to defend the use of made up quotes and name-calling).
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  dang would do well to formally add those rules to the HN Guidelines page, then. It is patently unreasonable to expect unstated rules to be followed.
  - cxr 4y ago
    Surprise! That doesn't happen because then you get people showing up trying to litigate them. PS: They're not unstated. I just linked to them; they can be read, ergo, they are stated.