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> "but if you throw that away because of the flame title then you've lost that" Yes, and rightfully so. I have no problems with the author's views, I have ever

> "but if you throw that away because of the flame title then you've lost that" Yes, and rightfully so. I have no problems with the author's views, I have every problem with people being assholes and douchebags with each other. I have zero qualms about missing the thoughts of people who haven't the least modicum of respect for their fellow man. I don't care how smart you are, at the end of the day intelligence, or being right, is not the measure of a human being. > "you don't like the way they said it so you ignore what they said" Yes. Like I said, presentation matters. The antisocial, the arrogant, the whatevers of the world who cannot massage their thoughts into something worth communicating will rage impotently at the fact that no one is listening to them. Us nerds have a bad habit of letting this turn into a superiority complex, but no matter how superior you might feel, still no one is listening. At the end of the day, we're each only on this lonely rock for a short amount of time. Many of us have figured out that we'd much rather be good to one another with our time than to spend it stroking our egos by seething with rage about everything.

10ki 14y ago
> Yes, and rightfully so. I think you meant righteously so. You are saying to discount facts and logic because the person saying them offended your sensibilities. You're just building a bubble of ignorance around yourself by discounting everything unseemly. The reason why you find 'geek culture' hostile is because geeks tend to value merit more than you value morality. The computer does not care if the n log n algorithm was created by an evil genius or Ned Flanders, and neither do geeks. There is tons of creative and worthwhile content on 4chan than you'll ever know and will deny exists (or has a right to exist). At the end of the day, there's more humanity on display at 4chan than HN.

10ki 14y ago

> Yes, and rightfully so. I think you meant righteously so. You are saying to discount facts and logic because the person saying them offended your sensibilities. You're just building a bubble of ignorance around yourself by discounting everything unseemly. The reason why you find 'geek culture' hostile is because geeks tend to value merit more than you value morality. The computer does not care if the n log n algorithm was created by an evil genius or Ned Flanders, and neither do geeks. There is tons of creative and worthwhile content on 4chan than you'll ever know and will deny exists (or has a right to exist). At the end of the day, there's more humanity on display at 4chan than HN.