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This is sneering, where you don't respond to a particular poster's point, but instead attack a fictional group of people that you made up based on two the inter
by throw10920 2y ago
This is sneering, where you don't respond to a particular poster's point, but instead attack a fictional group of people that you made up based on two the intersection of different attributes.
It's against the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), boring, unenlightening, not intellectually gratifying, degrades the quality of the site, and takes far less intelligence than the "mental equivalent of scurvy" that you name. Don't do it.
- llm_trw 2y agoSo is yours: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.