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The logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong". It's on me for rando

The logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong". It's on me for randomly checking comments to see if people are acting in bad faith. Sometimes, they are.

EGreg 12d ago
Alright since you’re going to express moral indignation, allow me to say what I really think. I think it is incredibly rude to go on a SHOW HN where a person may have (as in this case) spent months on an actual project and finally shows it, only to completely ignore everything about the actual project and snarkily announcs to everyone that it was “TL;DR” or these days “it smelled like LLM wrote the front page, so I didnt read anything! Haha nyeh nyeh.” Imagine someone raised a child to play the piano, they ask you to listen to their performance and you leave a comment “didn’t bother watching — the thumbnail sucks, and this child is wearing unappealing clothing”. In real life, you’d never do that. You know it’s wrong. You would probably get ostracized and rightly considered a jerk or in any case the parents would really take it badly. You can just privately ignore the post. But to announce it as the first comment and make sure everyone else sees it — I would never shit on people’s projects like that. In frustration, I left your exact comment on another SHOW HN that happened to have a nice AI-generated page, but the difference was … it was already trending and had many comments, so my comment barely registered. So I did what you did — which was wrong and uncouth — but on something where it was the 20th comment, all the way on the bottom. But here’s the best part. Then you show up, and explain, in your self-righteous way, that, you see, actually, what you did was right, but the exact same comment on another AI-generated website is totally wrong, because of ad-hoc nuance analysis you just made up. And everyone should be aware of this exact nuance, which you are now handwaving, because you are morally right and the other person than you shit on is morally wrong. Suffice it to say that I think your whole analysis is backwards. What you did was rude, and what I did was a milder version of that. The bad faith is you then trying to further invent nuance as to why what you did is great and I’m in bad faith. Sorry buddy. Totally backwards.
- rideontime 11d ago
  He may have been "rude," but he was leaving his honest feedback. You, on the other hand, publicly posted what appeared to be criticism on a third party's project, with no disclosure that your comment was actually part of some unrelated personal feud. You are in no position to accuse anybody else of acting in "bad faith."

EGreg 12d ago

Alright since you’re going to express moral indignation, allow me to say what I really think. I think it is incredibly rude to go on a SHOW HN where a person may have (as in this case) spent months on an actual project and finally shows it, only to completely ignore everything about the actual project and snarkily announcs to everyone that it was “TL;DR” or these days “it smelled like LLM wrote the front page, so I didnt read anything! Haha nyeh nyeh.” Imagine someone raised a child to play the piano, they ask you to listen to their performance and you leave a comment “didn’t bother watching — the thumbnail sucks, and this child is wearing unappealing clothing”. In real life, you’d never do that. You know it’s wrong. You would probably get ostracized and rightly considered a jerk or in any case the parents would really take it badly. You can just privately ignore the post. But to announce it as the first comment and make sure everyone else sees it — I would never shit on people’s projects like that. In frustration, I left your exact comment on another SHOW HN that happened to have a nice AI-generated page, but the difference was … it was already trending and had many comments, so my comment barely registered. So I did what you did — which was wrong and uncouth — but on something where it was the 20th comment, all the way on the bottom. But here’s the best part. Then you show up, and explain, in your self-righteous way, that, you see, actually, what you did was right, but the exact same comment on another AI-generated website is totally wrong, because of ad-hoc nuance analysis you just made up. And everyone should be aware of this exact nuance, which you are now handwaving, because you are morally right and the other person than you shit on is morally wrong. Suffice it to say that I think your whole analysis is backwards. What you did was rude, and what I did was a milder version of that. The bad faith is you then trying to further invent nuance as to why what you did is great and I’m in bad faith. Sorry buddy. Totally backwards.

rideontime 11d ago
He may have been "rude," but he was leaving his honest feedback. You, on the other hand, publicly posted what appeared to be criticism on a third party's project, with no disclosure that your comment was actually part of some unrelated personal feud. You are in no position to accuse anybody else of acting in "bad faith."