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I get suspicious whenever someone uses that image to preface a response. It serves no purpose in a debate, and just makes the author seem smug. edit: since the
by mdonahoe 14y ago
I get suspicious whenever someone uses that image to preface a response. It serves no purpose in a debate, and just makes the author seem smug.
edit: since the parent deleted his response, I am referring to the xkcd image that is currently at the top of the blogpost.
- jayliew 14y agoHi, author here. I didn't see the comment that was deleted that you responded to (it wasn't me). I guess I just slapped it up there because it captured the moment of how I felt when I read the post I was responding to. Did not mean to come off as smug, I just thought that it was funny that reading something on the internets got me feeling so strongly that I wanted to respond to it. Update: decided to just remove the XKCD comic
- mdonahoe 14y agoIt just reminds me of watching two people bickering at each other in comment threads, justifying themselves with that comic. Plus it I think it is overused. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22someone+is+wrong+on+the+internet%22&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22someone+... The now-deleted parent comment wasn't complaining, he just said you didn't cite the source as xkcd.
- jayliew 14y agoha, I guess that comic is pretty popular, and I was totally being not-original. XKCD provides a link specific for hotlinking to all their comics, and I just used that link that was officially provided.
- dllthomas 14y agoI think it's an admission and warning that you might be ranty, and there's probably not a good-enough reason for it.