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Giles has been in this thread, but his comments are being deleted because he's an asshole.
by blasdel 18y ago
Giles has been in this thread, but his comments are being deleted because he's an asshole.
- gilesgoatboy 18y agoNo, my comments are being deleted because I don't have any respect for this community. That's different from being an asshole. If you're nice to somebody but you don't show them respect, then you don't respect them but you're still not an asshole. I think I've given everyone here a nice little present. You might not want it, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to. You perceive me as an asshole because you believe your community is entitled to more respect than I believe it has earned. I don't think that has anything to do with me being an asshole, although if you had said "rude," I would have had to concede that point right away. If HN's community had saved my life, or you had made incredible sacrifices for my benefit, or something like that, then my not showing the discussion much respect would have been an asshole move. But I like this site, sort of, and I'm doing something to make it better. In my own way I'm doing something to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of discussions here, by making it harder for me to get in them.
- yters 18y agoDespite his rudeness, he's also making good points. His comments shouldn't be killed.
- gilesgoatboy 18y agoyou know what, actually, I wrote a big comment justifying the same point of view (currently right below this very comment) but the irony is that as far as I can tell none of my comments were deleted at all.