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at least we now know a few things: (1) that there’s surveillance—whether based on username or vocabulary or ip address or a combination of them and more, we ca
by yawboakye 3y ago
at least we now know a few things:
(1) that there’s surveillance—whether based on username or vocabulary or ip address or a combination of them and more, we can’t tell.
(2) that calling out weak and unsound argument that is net negative information by way ad hominem—an accepted usage of ad hominem—is contra hacker news. it has resulted in the many and nonsensical comments.
(3) that dang goes hunting for people like me, politely threatening them with a ban if they don’t make quick adjustments to fit the culture. And what’s the culture? Don’t call out people for poorly thought-out argument, nor for potentially disparaging comments about whole groups of people.
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- dang 3y agoWhat you actually posted was "you're very stupid". That has nothing to do with "thought-out argument" or "whole groups of people". It's just internet name-calling. If your intent is to do something nobler than that, great - but the rest of us don't have access to your intent, so the burden is on you to disambiguate it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
- yawboakye 3y agoi see you edited your comment to remove the offensive bit, before i could ask quis custodes custodit? but doesn’t honesty and culture of hacker news require that you acknowledge the edit in the text that remains? i was going to say that scolding is what abusive adults do to helpless kids when they assume that kids can’t be reasoned with. so good thing you realized and took it out. just as you hope that i don’t call anyone stupid so i hope you don’t scold any of hacker news’ patrons anymore :) take care and have a nice day!
- dang 3y agoI add 'edit' once I think someone will have seen a comment, and certainly once there's a reply, but if there are no replies and the glue hasn't dried yet, I often take the first few minutes to edit. Lately I've taken to including the marker "[editing...]" whilst I'm doing that, but I can't remember if I did it in this case or not. I use the word 'scolding' quite a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scold&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., so it's not as if I was trying to hide any tracks there! But I don't use it in the spirit you're describing. I guess I use it to slightly mock the process, including my part in it. This whole internet forum thing is mostly trivial and largely ridiculous.
- dredmorbius 3y agoI've referred to such reminders as "admonishments" which seems less pejorative than "scolding".