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> Please don’t act as if you don’t know that you are peddling nonsense. You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. https:/
by tomhow 1y ago
> Please don’t act as if you don’t know that you are peddling nonsense.
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: In case people don't understand why this is the kind of comment we'd call out: I've said a few times in different ways that Hacker News should be a place where we can discuss difficult topics. There are few more difficult topics than armed conflict between nations. It's pointless to have a discussion that mostly consists of people with entrenched oppsing views hurling insults at each other. If somebody is wrong, refute them with opposing evidence. Otherwise the only thing we'll achieve is to drive away anyone who is interested in actually learning anything new about the topic, in which case we're much better off not having the discussion at all.
- redczar 1y agoWhen a person writes something that is obviously nonsensical it should be called out as such. This is especially so when the topic is about ongoing acts of war.
- tomhow 1y agoIf it's an important topic, which it is, it's all the more important to convey the substance of your point, without the abusive barbs. Dropping the swipe "Please don’t act as if you don’t know that you are peddling nonsense" would have made all the difference. We can't know what people "know" when they write things on a discussion board.
- redczar 1y ago[flagged]
- owebmaster 1y agoYou can be wrong / right and you can be polite / rude those two are unrelated. Being right and rude (or worse) is not great for a discussion, especially on a topic like this one.
- redczar 1y agoIn general I agree. But not in this case. In the “polite” approach what happens is that obviously bad assertions are made and one politely engages but the starting point is such that you are engaged in an attempt to just get to a reasonable place. It’s sort like how combatting a lie is much more effort than spreading one. My comment above was not for the person who made. I don’t engage with such people. It was for the people who stumbled upon it. I want them to know that there are people who think the comment is ridiculously bad.
- pvg 1y agoThere's no "not in the case" on HN, though. People can figure out the quality of a comment themselves, perhaps helped along by a comment that disputes what the first comment says. But the idea you're doing everyone some service by trashing the place is misplaced, it's just not how things work.
- redczar 1y agoI disagree.
- pvg 1y agoYou don’t have to agree, you just can’t comment like that on HN.
- redczar 1y ago[flagged]
- pvg 1y agoNobody is interested in banning you, people are simply asking you not to shit in the place they use so that they and you can continue using it. Trying to present this shitting as some sort of principled martyrdom or, heaven help us, favour to the rest of us is silly, selfish and unconvincing. Just ease off on the shitting in the future, it's not like most everyone else has any trouble doing it.