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How to be polite
- ColinWright 11y agoIn case anyone is interested in the HN community thoughts on this, it was discussed at some length 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8178536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8178536 It was also submitted many times, showing that quite a few people thought it was interesting. Here are some of those submissions, even though they generated no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8584823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8584823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173722 Found using this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22how%20to%20be%20polite%22&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22how%20to%20be%20polite%22&s...
- Bahamut 11y agoThat is an interesting perspective on party conversation - mentally, if someone says [insert thing] sounds hard, generally my first reaction is to be mistrustful due to insincerity. If someone is on autopilot with what they say, I will always doubt the intention of that person because the person is on sales mode, and as a sales tactic, it does not sell me on a desire to be around the person long.
- peterjancelis 11y agoYou only remember the polite remarks that came across fake. Like the author says, real politeness goes unnoticed.
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