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Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.
by perihelions 2y ago
Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" [1]. They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own." (Whether this fuel anti-immigrant xenophobia, colonist/coloniser moral binaries, or the dismissal or a disease eradicator.) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- perihelions 2y agoI sincerely believe "obvious troll" was the strongest possible interpretation of that comment. edit: For with it's worth, "don't feed trolls" is also an HN guideline ("Don't feed egregious comments by replying").