Comment by dang
7 years ago
Your comments in this thread have broken the HN guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Getting personal, bringing up whether someone read an article properly, making uncharitable interpretations of other comments, snarking, and posting in the flamewar style are all things they ask you not to do and which we're trying to avoid here. Not that your comments were anything like as bad as some that we see, but even in seed form these things have ill effects.
Hi dang, thanks for the heads up (and yes, I'll review them). Trouble I've been having is I feel I already tried to follow the tips in the guideline in my initial comments (see [1]), but it didn't work -- people still commented claiming the article is recommending the opposite of what it's actually claiming, meaning they clearly did not read all of it. I'm stuck on what to do. If I can't explicitly tell them to go read the article, then what is the proper response?
Edit: Someone deleted one of their replies here. Just wanted to say thanks, I read it and I think it'll be helpful moving forward.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20430310
> If I can't explicitly tell them to go read the article, then what is the proper response?
"This isn't what the article says. For instance, in paragraph n, the author states 'x, y and z.'"
This is basically what I tried in the comment of mine that I linked to, but it only works if they make a specific claim that the article refutes. It doesn't really work in response to "this article is very bad"...
> You, who've surely carefully read the article, understood it in its entirety, and played around with the notion to get a feel for its upsides and downsides, very insightfully reduced it all down to "very bad advice" with zero elaboration. You find that compelling?
I’m pretty sure you did not try to follow the guideline in your initial comments. (see [0])
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20430270
Yes, not in that comment. I was at a loss on how to reply to a comment that just trashed the article as "very bad" and left it at that; I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have replied at all. But I tried to do things a little better in the next one. I failed regardless, though, so that's why I'm hoping someone can offer a new approach.