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> We literally have the president of ycombinator making a personal attack against someone who dares to ask why a set of anecdotes is interesting. Describing ht
by philh 12y ago
> We literally have the president of ycombinator making a personal attack against someone who dares to ask why a set of anecdotes is interesting.
Describing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653669 as a personal attack seems... excessive.
(Looks like he edited it though, were you talking about the original version?)
- yummyfajitas 12y agoThe original version said "you are the problem". It's hardly cursing someone out, but it is certainly more hostility than is normally desired here.
- philh 12y agoI agree, that version is absolutely a personal attack.
- tptacek 12y agoLike I said upthread: there is a difference between saying that someone with a particular misconception is a reason to build a website, and literally attacking them for holding that misconception. Altman's comment was a little personalized, but in context only a little bit: the only thing Altman could have known about the commenter was that they held the misconception. To push it over the line into "personal attack", maybe it would need to read something more like: "You're the reason we had to waste time building this site."