Comment by dang
4 years ago
I'm not taking a side, just making the shallow point that "fuck these people", etc., is not good HN posting.
It's common when we post a moderation reply for people to assume that the mods are disagreeing with them [1], when we're just asking them to follow the site guidelines. Those two things are orthogonal, but they fuse under temperature: that is, when one is feeling hot about something, it's hard to separate them. They come unstuck as things cool down.
(I don't mean to pick on you personally. This kind of reaction happens in everyone, certainly including me.)
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
That's a good point.
I did a bit of walking away, had some water and feel a little better. It's sometimes difficult to separate things from being personal. Sorry, this whole thread has my BP going a little hot because of some things like this I've had to deal with.
It's not you, I probably went a little far there with "fuck these people".
Nice recovery. Appreciated!