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I'm another guy on the internet, and I just want to tell you, you don't have to be mean to people on the internet. You don't have to write nice things to everyb
by rockmeamedee 13y ago
I'm another guy on the internet, and I just want to tell you, you don't have to be mean to people on the internet. You don't have to write nice things to everybody, but mean things just suck. Writing mean things just makes the world more mean. I'd rather not read mean things, and I'm sure you'd rather not write mean things. There's too little time in life for that.
How do you think Dave's going to take this post? He writes that HN is full of people just attacking him.
> The issue I take with Dave Winer is that he seems to feel as though his accomplishments or contributions somehow elevate his words beyond criticism.
Bam, right in the nuts. Fuck you, and fuck your accomplishments.
I'm sorry if my post sounds mean, I really want you to have the happiest possible life and a great time here. But if his post is terrible, you don't have to pollute your head with it and pollute my head by writing mean things about it.
I don't come here to read wishy washy "great job dude!" posts, but I don't come here to gossip about how people think they've got a "permanent apotheosis" or whatever. He's just a dude on the internet, you're just a dude on the internet. Be nice to each other. Life is too short to do otherwise.
Best of luck!
- danilocampos 13y agoDo you think he was nice to Marissa Mayer in his post?
- MartinCron 13y agoDo you think that absolves you from being nice to him?
- danilocampos 13y agoAbsolutely. Live by the sword, etc. And I feel the same applies to me. I heard many candid responses. Didn't agree with all of them. Learned from some. Which is the way it's supposed to work.
- MartinCron 13y agoAnother person's transgressions doesn't absolve you from being civil in response. That's what civilization means. It's not always easy, but it's an ideal we should hold ourselves to if we want our community to be a place worth spending time.
- davewiner 13y agoWhat transgressions? It was just a story! You guys are amazing to me, how you can inflate something as simple as a story into this monumental thing. I wrote the piece in 15 minutes. You're spending 48 hours debating every nuance of something that means nothing. Totally bizarre.
- MartinCron 13y agoSorry Dave, this is bigger than just you :) I care about being a part of a community that doesn't let the escalation of (real and perceived) slights debase the overall conversation. That's what I'm talking about. You spent 15 minutes on a story, I've spent the last few years trying to be a constructive part of this community.
- davewiner 13y agoOkay that's cool. It's just that you said some things about me that are wrong. You seem like a nice person. Just know that I'm not who you think I am. I get this all the time. When people hear how I talk they're suprised because it's not the voice they hear when they read my writing. But I write just the way I talk. Funny how that is. ;-)
- MartinCron 13y agoI am a nice person, and I didn't actually say anything negative about you. I meant "transgressions" in a purely hypothetical way. Trying to make the point that now matter how pompous some blogger is, we should all be civil to each other here. Don't mind me, I am just holding back the tide.
- davewiner 13y agoI certainly wasn't un-nice to her. Just told a story.