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I sincerely hope the great-grandparent comment is not a representation of this community, either. I will try and stay optimistic that there are higher quality

I sincerely hope the great-grandparent comment is not a representation of this community, either. I will try and stay optimistic that there are higher quality comments, if nothing else, for something higher I can aspire to than comments calling others liar but in a nuanced enough way to reframe it as a someone dishonest. It's pretty clear we're not going to have a "proper conversation" if it's not OK for a knee-jerk reaction, when I know little about a guy, and no one has offered compelling evidence to the contrary, to be passive aggressive about an insane comment that a husband and father of little kids is better off dead. Absolutely unconscionable to me, unless this guy is going around violently attacking people or something.

CamperBob2 1y ago
The one mistake you don't want to make around here is to assume any sort of homogeneity among the commentariat. (I make that mistake myself more often than I should.) HN is a mixture of stereotypically left-leaning people, from high-school students to old-school cyberpunk activists, sharing threads with stereotypically right-leaning people from billionaire founders to ambitious wannabees. There is also no shortage of Trumpers around here, and no shortage of people whom the Trumpers would like to exile or worse. What doesn't go over well with any of these people is sea-lioning. The site guidelines explicitly require an assumption of good faith on the part of the people you're talking with. When you make it difficult to honor that rule by "just asking questions here," it tends to generate friction. Those who think you secretly agree with them may vote you up, while those who suspect otherwise may do the opposite. But nobody is ultimately fooled, and nobody is genuinely impressed.
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I sincerely hope the great-grandparent comment is not a representation of this community, either. I will try and stay optimistic that there are higher quality

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CamperBob2 1y ago
The one mistake you don't want to make around here is to assume any sort of homogeneity among the commentariat. (I make that mistake myself more often than I should.) HN is a mixture of stereotypically left-leaning people, from high-school students to old-school cyberpunk activists, sharing threads with stereotypically right-leaning people from billionaire founders to ambitious wannabees. There is also no shortage of Trumpers around here, and no shortage of people whom the Trumpers would like to exile or worse. What doesn't go over well with any of these people is sea-lioning. The site guidelines explicitly require an assumption of good faith on the part of the people you're talking with. When you make it difficult to honor that rule by "just asking questions here," it tends to generate friction. Those who think you secretly agree with them may vote you up, while those who suspect otherwise may do the opposite. But nobody is ultimately fooled, and nobody is genuinely impressed.
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