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People have personalities. If you don't like people's personality, or at least give them the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith - do expect other's to
by anon3_ 11y ago
People have personalities.
If you don't like people's personality, or at least give them the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith - do expect other's to just lobotomize themselves for you?
When I said that, it's really my initial impression and feeling. It's a comment. I think, if done civilly, people can be allowed to express themselves without being PC robots.
Edit: Oh sorry, When I said "Having fun, getting 15 minutes of fame", I meant those as two separate things. However, it reads as if I'm brushing them off.
- dang 11y agoI hear you about expressing feeling, and it's a fair point. The problem is that some of those expressions, perhaps normal in regular conversation, become volatile chemicals online. There's too much room for misinterpretation, and the downside is unbounded. The rules on HN aren't anti-personality, they're based on long experience with what we all have to do to maintain the substantiveness and civility of the discourse. It's a tradeoff. The cost is a certain blandness sometimes. But the alternative would, in the long run, ruin the community.