Comment by breck
2 years ago
> Elon has utterly wrecked his reputation over the last couple of months (and probably longer than that) and it is getting worse, not better.
Lol. This could be the worst prediction from an otherwise smart person I've ever seen. Please elaborate and define it mathematically. (My guess in trying to do so you'll either discover the errors in your thinking or double down on your intellectual dishonesty)
No personal attacks, please.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are right. Yet, why is his not a personal attack on Elon?
It wasn't a neutral statement but I don't think I'd call it a personal attack. It's a claim about reputation.
There's also a significant difference between attacking a fellow user in a flamewar style comment vs. talking about a powerful public figure; we don't allow the worst kinds of personal attack in the latter case either*, but the bar is necessarily higher.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...