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What are you talking about? Technological disagreements? Political disagreements? Business disagreements? Something else?

• sgy 12y ago
  Business comes first, Technological is second. Didn't encounter other types of negativity yet.
  • mooism2 12y ago
    Can you give examples?
    • sgy 12y ago
      This is an instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027261
      • mooism2 12y ago
        That article is about politics at least as much as it is about business. Most of the comments there aren't negative. Critical, yes, but not negative. Either that is a bad example, or I'm failing to see what you're complaining about.
  • negativity 12y ago
    A big part of it has to do with the fact that this is mostly a recreational website. People come here to unwind, distract themselves and daydream a bit. Whenever I find myself seeking distraction, I'm usually frustrated or fatigued, and in a cranky mood. Sometimes I check the site after I get off work, and haven't eaten yet. If I'm tired and hungry, my mood is all the worse. Maybe I just got out of an argument I just lost, and I'm looking for an easy target to chew out, and reassert my ego, and feel like I'm back in control. But how I behave on the internet towards pseudonymous strangers is drastically different from how behave towards living breathing people, with names and faces, in person. On the internet, you're not getting "the real me", or even some secret alter-ego that harbors my darkest, most terrible views an opinions. It's just some old bullshit, while I'm spitting venom and stuck in a bad mood. Once I take a breather, and get things sorted out, I usually return to the stuff that matters with a cooler head, and treat the people who confront me face-to-face with respect.