4 ms·
I read that as the original article OP, not the person posting on HN; whose point are you defending here? OT: wouldn't it be great if software like HN made it
by jrabone 13y ago
I read that as the original article OP, not the person posting on HN; whose point are you defending here?
OT: wouldn't it be great if software like HN made it trivially easy to indicate WHO was being talked about? OP is apparently confusing - perhaps colour coding, or some other visual cue rather than "the post two posts above the reply to the previous post" or the mangled cut'n'paste of someone's barely readable grey handle that we have now.
- ColinWright 13y agoI thought it was pretty clear that "OP" in this case referred to "Original Poster", by which s/he means the person who wrote the article. It can't really refer to groundCode, because there's no way to work out his/her age. "OP" stands for "Original Poster." Your point is valid, but it's usually easily deduced, or the person who wrote the ambiguous comment should simply have been clearer.
- StavrosK 13y agoHe's also talking about the article OP, and he's saying that the HN poster's reply about age is very low-effort and doesn't contribute much, apart from an ad hominem.