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You don't have to take responsibility for fixing something just because you criticized it. Fixating on the term used is a tad disingenuous. I think most people

You don't have to take responsibility for fixing something just because you criticized it. Fixating on the term used is a tad disingenuous. I think most people reading hacker news understands that the IRC ecosystem is being referenced here - not the protocol itself. IRC has been around 30+ years and it still doesn't have any great clients. If you wanted to build a featureful chat client IRC wouldn't even be a good choice because there is so many things missing from the spec.

Zetice 3y ago
Sorry but this passive voice over a completely open system is intolerable. Fix it yourself. It annoys me.
- eropple 3y ago
  Let's put it as simply as possible, because there's the genuine possibility that you don't understand, rather than are just being an acrimonious troll. You wouldn't be Linux-on-the-desktopping as hard as you are if you didn't want people to use it. As such, if you, as an advocate of a thing, want other people to use it when the alternative is "continue using other things", then the least effective response is "fix it yourself". I don't need to fix it. I have alternatives that already do what I want. If you want to hector people to use the thing you want them to do, then you had best come correct.
  - Zetice 3y ago
    If you have everything you need, why did you complain? And insults do you no good here. Would any of the hateful words you wrote above mean anything at all to you if I wrote them?
    - boredtofears 3y ago
      > If you have everything you need, why did you complain? Because it’s a forum for discussing technology? Why critique anything with that logic. You must be trolling.
      - Zetice 3y ago
        Either you have a concern, in which case you can and should do something about it, or you don’t and just commented for no reason.
- boredtofears 3y ago
  > Passive voice over a completely open system ?? What does that even mean?
  - Zetice 3y ago
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Zetice 3y ago

Sorry but this passive voice over a completely open system is intolerable. Fix it yourself. It annoys me.

eropple 3y ago
Let's put it as simply as possible, because there's the genuine possibility that you don't understand, rather than are just being an acrimonious troll. You wouldn't be Linux-on-the-desktopping as hard as you are if you didn't want people to use it. As such, if you, as an advocate of a thing, want other people to use it when the alternative is "continue using other things", then the least effective response is "fix it yourself". I don't need to fix it. I have alternatives that already do what I want. If you want to hector people to use the thing you want them to do, then you had best come correct.
- Zetice 3y ago
  If you have everything you need, why did you complain? And insults do you no good here. Would any of the hateful words you wrote above mean anything at all to you if I wrote them?
  - boredtofears 3y ago
    > If you have everything you need, why did you complain? Because it’s a forum for discussing technology? Why critique anything with that logic. You must be trolling.
    - Zetice 3y ago
      Either you have a concern, in which case you can and should do something about it, or you don’t and just commented for no reason.
boredtofears 3y ago
> Passive voice over a completely open system ?? What does that even mean?
- Zetice 3y ago
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