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Not gonna murder anyone but would recommend you check the posting guidelines in HackerNews cause your comment breaks at least two. `Comments should get more th

Not gonna murder anyone but would recommend you check the posting guidelines in HackerNews cause your comment breaks at least two. `Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. ` and `Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.` Be better.

kouteiheika 3y ago
Right. Because rest of the comments in this subthread are clearly much better, very thoughtful, substantive and non-generic. Sigh, fine, I get the point; I'll delete the comment. Sorry. You're right, I shouldn't have done that. Even if it was a joke it's always a bad idea to post anything even remotely controversial on the Internet, especially if it can be in any way construed that you might disagree with the hive mind of the site you're posting to. Thank you for the reminder before it turned into a potential flamewar.
- Arkhaine_kupo 3y ago
  > Because rest of the comments in this subthread are clearly much better, very thoughtful, substantive and non-generic. Does someone elses crime expunge our own? You mentioned you were scared of being "murdered" which meant you understood the problem of what you were sharing. Just pointing out the comment guidelines is a simple way of keeping hackernews as a good place to have conversations rather than becoming another internet forum. > Even if it was a joke it's always a bad idea to post anything even remotely controversial on the Internet I do not think this is true. Humour is a fantastic way to treat controversial topics, but there is a place and a time. Hackernews is many things, but its not the best place to have a one-liner observational humour stand up routine over politics.
  - kouteiheika 3y ago
    > Does someone elses crime expunge our own? No. I never said it does. But I don't see you or anyone else commenting under those other comments in the same way. Perhaps if we're going to chastise one potential rule breaker maybe we should chastise all of them? I agree with you, let's keep HN clean. > You mentioned you were scared of being "murdered" which meant you understood the problem of what you were sharing. I just wanted to highlight the fact that it was a lighthearted joke, because many people nowadays tend to take everything dead serious, assume bad intent and get immediately triggered/offended.
dang 3y ago
I appreciate your watching out for the HN guidelines! but "Be better" is also a swipe, so it would be good to omit that bit in the future.

kouteiheika 3y ago

Right. Because rest of the comments in this subthread are clearly much better, very thoughtful, substantive and non-generic. Sigh, fine, I get the point; I'll delete the comment. Sorry. You're right, I shouldn't have done that. Even if it was a joke it's always a bad idea to post anything even remotely controversial on the Internet, especially if it can be in any way construed that you might disagree with the hive mind of the site you're posting to. Thank you for the reminder before it turned into a potential flamewar.

Arkhaine_kupo 3y ago
> Because rest of the comments in this subthread are clearly much better, very thoughtful, substantive and non-generic. Does someone elses crime expunge our own? You mentioned you were scared of being "murdered" which meant you understood the problem of what you were sharing. Just pointing out the comment guidelines is a simple way of keeping hackernews as a good place to have conversations rather than becoming another internet forum. > Even if it was a joke it's always a bad idea to post anything even remotely controversial on the Internet I do not think this is true. Humour is a fantastic way to treat controversial topics, but there is a place and a time. Hackernews is many things, but its not the best place to have a one-liner observational humour stand up routine over politics.
- kouteiheika 3y ago
  > Does someone elses crime expunge our own? No. I never said it does. But I don't see you or anyone else commenting under those other comments in the same way. Perhaps if we're going to chastise one potential rule breaker maybe we should chastise all of them? I agree with you, let's keep HN clean. > You mentioned you were scared of being "murdered" which meant you understood the problem of what you were sharing. I just wanted to highlight the fact that it was a lighthearted joke, because many people nowadays tend to take everything dead serious, assume bad intent and get immediately triggered/offended.

dang 3y ago

I appreciate your watching out for the HN guidelines! but "Be better" is also a swipe, so it would be good to omit that bit in the future.