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No, you are cherry picking. Here are other lines from the same comment People disagreeing with you isn't evidence. It's that the collateral damage of firing o
by current_call 12y ago
No, you are cherry picking. Here are other lines from the same comment
People disagreeing with you isn't evidence.
It's that the collateral damage of firing off such accusations indiscriminately is too great for that to be ok without evidence.
deal with them not by calling names but by making better arguments.
These are all things the flag killed comment did.
You should also pay attention to who your cherry picked quote was aimed at.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114355
But we will do so by looking at actual data—something that isn't an option in the HN threads themselves and would mostly be off-topic there.
This is the only part that supports you view, and it's a baseless assertion. Someone did collect evidence and present it and it was on topic.
- tptacek 12y agoYou're writing as if the original comment wasn't right there for everyone to see. It says the opposite of what you're claiming it does about accusing people of being shills on HN threads.
- current_call 12y agoYou're using a single line of the comment out of context to disagree with the spirit of the comment.