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Can you please make your substantive points more thoughtfully? "What the hell are you talking about" is too aggressive for the curious conversation we're trying

• johnnienaked 1y ago
  Sure. Stating the authors of the Beat novels, despite many of them being married to women, were "mostly gay" isn't curious conversation though. It's an obviously false conjecture not based in evidence.
  • dang 1y ago
    That may well be so, but we need you (<-- I don't mean you personally, of course, but everyone here) to follow the rules even when another comment is wrong or bad. Otherwise we end up in a downward spiral. There's actually an interesting reason for that: we all underestimate the provocations in our own posts and overestimate the provocations in other people's posts. If the skew is 10x each way then that's a 100x perception gap. Since more or less all comments suffer from this baseline bias, we need to compensate for it by doing extra work to stay within the guidelines. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%2210x%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    • johnnienaked 1y ago
      Fair enough I will. I agree with what you said about underestimating provocations