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I think it's interesting (euphemistic) how you imagine my friends and I interact. Given that I have actual experience interacting with my friends and you have

I think it's interesting (euphemistic) how you imagine my friends and I interact. Given that I have actual experience interacting with my friends and you have only your imagination, perhaps you should reconsider the casualness with which you've insulted me. My conversations do not infact involve lots of "I don't know", "...", annoyed responses; people describe the details as well as they remember and then either they or we as a group try to look things up. Next time, try asking questions instead of imagining or assuming.

enraged_camel 12y ago
>>Given that I have actual experience interacting with my friends and you have only your imagination, perhaps you should reconsider the casualness with which you've insulted me. Are you seriously saying this with a straight face right after suggesting that someone (i.e. me) who tells you to "just Google it" when you ask for the citation for a casually mentioned study is stupid? You really are a piece of work. I think I'm done here.
- lotharbot 12y ago
  I'm saying that any of my friends who told me to "just Google it" would be stupid, and the rest of my friends would let him know. Because all of my friends know that, if you're having a conversation with us and you reference "a study" you're going to have to back that up with a clear enough description that we can actually find the specific study in question and discuss it. (I think that's also the ethos on Hacker News -- it's generally expected, even in casual HN conversation, that people will give enough information that interested parties can follow up without confusion. Don't tell people "google it"; take the 5 seconds to google it yourself and give them the link.) I expect people to ask me for citations, and I expect people to give me citations when asked, because that's the sort of social circle I've cultivated (and that's the expectation HN has cultivated as well.) You clearly run in a different social circle than me. I would not call you stupid for not having cultivated the same habits and expectations. But I would appreciate if you didn't criticize me based on how you imagine I socialize.

enraged_camel 12y ago

>>Given that I have actual experience interacting with my friends and you have only your imagination, perhaps you should reconsider the casualness with which you've insulted me. Are you seriously saying this with a straight face right after suggesting that someone (i.e. me) who tells you to "just Google it" when you ask for the citation for a casually mentioned study is stupid? You really are a piece of work. I think I'm done here.

lotharbot 12y ago
I'm saying that any of my friends who told me to "just Google it" would be stupid, and the rest of my friends would let him know. Because all of my friends know that, if you're having a conversation with us and you reference "a study" you're going to have to back that up with a clear enough description that we can actually find the specific study in question and discuss it. (I think that's also the ethos on Hacker News -- it's generally expected, even in casual HN conversation, that people will give enough information that interested parties can follow up without confusion. Don't tell people "google it"; take the 5 seconds to google it yourself and give them the link.) I expect people to ask me for citations, and I expect people to give me citations when asked, because that's the sort of social circle I've cultivated (and that's the expectation HN has cultivated as well.) You clearly run in a different social circle than me. I would not call you stupid for not having cultivated the same habits and expectations. But I would appreciate if you didn't criticize me based on how you imagine I socialize.