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I apologize. I think if you review my comment history, it is apparent that I follow the guidelines, mostly. I flagged the comment, but I felt particularly infla
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y ago
I apologize. I think if you review my comment history, it is apparent that I follow the guidelines, mostly. I flagged the comment, but I felt particularly inflamed in the moment. Personally, I feel the comments are of equal quality.
- tomhow 1y agoI appreciate the apology but not the equivocation. Addressing someone like that is never ok and means you surrender the right to criticize someone else. If we want others to be better we need to hold ourselves to a high standard first.
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoEh, whatever man, I tried to be self-deprecating and reflective. If you want to preach message board ethics, maybe you should have some empathy yourself.
- tomhow 1y agoI've only seen this now, three days later. Sorry you felt unfairly attacked by my comment. It just seemed you were doubling down on the view that your comment being equivalent to the one you were replying to, which, is just not how we want to think about things (comment should be evaluated in their own right). Maybe I was too harsh. We had a quite a lot of politics-related flamewar last week, which always makes the job less enjoyable, most-of-all when users take out their political anger on us. Sorry if I seemed to lack empathy. I did appreciate the apology and I hope you'll keep using HN and making an effort to contribute positively. And thanks for sharing your feelings about my comment, it's helpful to know, so I can better calibrate in future.