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Responding like this is preferable to calling someone else a tool.
by wavefunction 13y ago
Responding like this is preferable to calling someone else a tool.
- tptacek 13y agoI'm glad you approve. No, wait, I don't give a shit. HN has too much tolerance for this 1000% totally bogus intellectually insulting rhetorical tactic. It demeans everyone. The people writing these idiotic "you must be a shill for {Microsoft,Mozilla,NSA}" comments think they're clever, but what they're really saying is "not only do I not understand what the Fundamental Attribution Error is, but I can't even comprehend the idea of someone disagreeing with me or even presenting a fact or idea that challenges my preconceptions; no, it's much more likely that this is a bad faith comment than that I don't know everything there is to know about every topic". And then other people cheer them on! There is no online community anywhere on the Internet less capable of spotting a shill than Hacker News. Any competent shill could immediately see how to game the site.
- wavefunction 13y agoHeh. I wasn't offering my approval so don't go jumping the gun there and assuming things. I was just offering a perspective on effective methods of communication. Whether it means anything to anyone other than myself, it has no effect on my continued meager offerings in the future. Anyways...