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Please stop.

• stefantalpalaru 12y ago
  Who are you to tell somebody else to stop posting in a public forum? No, putting "please" in front does not make your aggression any less impolite.
  • gnarbarian 12y ago
    It's very passive aggressive but it seemed to work, he said that and 10 minutes later half my comments on this page dropped from +4 to -4.
    • stefantalpalaru 12y ago
      There are people/bots that will go through your comment history and downvote all your recent comments when you piss off the wrong users.
• gnarbarian 12y ago
  Sorry, people keep replying and I can't help but tease the reality distortion field. Why do you care so much? It's just a laptop, who cares what a bunch of us neckbeards laugh at? Nothing should be beyond reproach here. This is hacker news not daring fireball.
  • Kurtz79 12y ago
    If you want flame wars and care about upvotes/downvotes, there are plenty of other websites that will oblige. Here posts are supposed to add something to the discussion, not to "tease" or provoke a response.
    • gnarbarian 12y ago
      When someone is blatantly exhibiting cognitive dissonance and reasoning has failed to sway them why not tease them a bit? They deserve it.
      • dang 12y ago
        Even if that's true, it degrades the discourse, and the harm that does to the community trumps whatever "teasing" a given user may or may not deserve.
• deleted 12y ago
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• dzhiurgis 12y ago
  Are you pg?
  • dzhiurgis 12y ago
    The reason I asked is because parent user About says "I use this account for things I can't say: http://paulgraham.com/say.html" http://paulgraham.com/say.html". His previous posts do not confirm the identity, but it does correlate with Paul Graham.