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C'mon. If the condescension of "Silly me, should have stayed in Russia" is kosher, so should be "Yeah, sounds like you should have." I'd prefer neither, but yo

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• dang 12y ago
  > If the condescension of "Silly me, should have stayed in Russia" is kosher It most certainly is not kosher. It's the sort of acerbic swipe that is far too common here and erodes the discourse to the next level down. But it wasn't a personal attack. That is the next level down. If I don't comment on every acerbic swipe, don't think it's because they're ok. I wince every time I see one. But to comment on them all is impossible, and one would lose one's marbles if one tried. So personal attacks are where we explicitly draw the line. My hope for the culture of HN is that more people wake up to how the acid in their comments destroys this community. As someone who used to make such comments myself, I realize that it's often unintentional, more careless than malevolent. If people can figure out that pollution is bad in some places, maybe we can figure out that it's bad in this one. It would be good if many of us reminded each other not to do this. One moderator can't cut it.