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An educative reply is easier to ignore than a (or multiple) replies in which you're ridiculed. Moreover, being thought about how you're wrong about X might not
by berdario 2y ago
An educative reply is easier to ignore than a (or multiple) replies in which you're ridiculed.
Moreover, being thought about how you're wrong about X might not necessarily translate in the subject being more careful before confidently expressing themselves on a Y topic on which they don't know anything about. Hopefully, ridiculing might make the subject reconsider that part of their character.
That said, the HN policies recommend to "be kind"... I have no idea how to "ridicule someone's post in a kind way" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- nequo 2y agoThe pile of downvotes drives the point home. No need to ridicule, education is better. If you can't educate the poster, at least you educate other readers who also didn’t know, without the unnecessary noise of ridicule.
- reaperman 2y agoI don’t think I see the same pile of downvotes that you’re seeing? My comment of ridicule got +10 votes in 15 minutes before I edited it, and now is down to +9 an hour after editing the ridicule out. I see that “Calm down. It's a common misconception” did get downvoted.
- nequo 2y agoI mean the original comment that misunderstood marginal tax rates. That one looks very gray to me. (And I think your comment is better without the ridicule! The sources you found for your follow-up comment are interesting and I learned from it.)
- brodouevencode 2y agoAgreed - and thank you for updating.