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"That's a mean way to treat somebody. Please don't be mean on HN." If that's your standard for meanness here, then everyone has been mean to me since I joined.
by sarciszewski 12y ago
"That's a mean way to treat somebody. Please don't be mean on HN."
If that's your standard for meanness here, then everyone has been mean to me since I joined.
- tptacek 12y agoNo, everyone hasn't.
- sarciszewski 12y agoHence, my point. My preceding comment was pretty par for the course as far as HN comments go. To call it "mean" is to exaggerate its impact and it significance.
- SamReidHughes 12y agoHow many comments in the past 1000 on https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments or in https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sarciszewski https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sarciszewski are as mean as that one?
- sarciszewski 12y agoDo you really expect me to read through 1000 comments to enumerate which ones exceed a minimal threshold for snark? If that's a prerequisite for being considered civil, fuck civility. I value my time too much for that. Furthermore, my suggestion of "everyone has been mean to me" was intended as absurd hyperbole. The worst thing I've dealt with from HN is silent down-votes without an explanation of what they didn't like about my comment, which isn't even in the same league as, say, Youtube comments. (To be explicit, the preceding sentence is NOT a complaint.) Sometimes I make ironic statements to make a point. Disclaimer: I'm normally an asshole. I don't think pointing things out and merely appending "LOL" is in the same league as, say, telling Comcast that all their lobbyists should commit seppuku to make the world a better place. Which I did this morning.