Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling or personal attacks, and please not post to HN in the flamewar style generally? We're trying for something very different here:
I read this comment three times and it does not include any name-calling, although in 3 places the argument is characterized as garbage. Some people might feel that '????? LMAO' is overly dismissive, but given that the comment addresses the whole argument of the article, I don't mind that some refutations are long and some pointed. I was more annoyed the the GP's failure to to use italics or some other delimiter to separate the quotations and responses.
I don't care for your tone-policing practices Dan. If someone is making a habit of it or trying to steamroller a thread by replying to everyone in such a way, fair enough, but neither condition obtains here. You cut off a lot of worthwhile contributions this way, chastizing people for a 'flamewar style' when no flame war is taking place. I found this contribution substantive and thought provoking and almost missed sseing it because it had been unfairly flagged.
"sure be writing a whole lot of cope" counts as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term*, and that was just the beginning of a lot of that. It was snark, too, of course, which is also against the guidelines. And don't get me started on the shallow dismissals and the slur about age. Perhaps you're right that the comment contained substantive points, but there's no reason not to convey the substance thoughtfully, and that's what the site rules call for. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
> I don't care for your tone-policing practices Dan.
You've said so many times. I appreciate that you believe it's possible to maintain discussion quality on a forum like HN while still allowing the GP type of post. I have a more negative view of what's possible. I'd rather you be right than me! But I'm not willing to run that experiment, when the price of being wrong is death.
* Actually the example given in the guidelines ("When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.") is precisely about an argument not a person.
Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling or personal attacks, and please not post to HN in the flamewar style generally? We're trying for something very different here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I read this comment three times and it does not include any name-calling, although in 3 places the argument is characterized as garbage. Some people might feel that '????? LMAO' is overly dismissive, but given that the comment addresses the whole argument of the article, I don't mind that some refutations are long and some pointed. I was more annoyed the the GP's failure to to use italics or some other delimiter to separate the quotations and responses.
I don't care for your tone-policing practices Dan. If someone is making a habit of it or trying to steamroller a thread by replying to everyone in such a way, fair enough, but neither condition obtains here. You cut off a lot of worthwhile contributions this way, chastizing people for a 'flamewar style' when no flame war is taking place. I found this contribution substantive and thought provoking and almost missed sseing it because it had been unfairly flagged.
"sure be writing a whole lot of cope" counts as name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term*, and that was just the beginning of a lot of that. It was snark, too, of course, which is also against the guidelines. And don't get me started on the shallow dismissals and the slur about age. Perhaps you're right that the comment contained substantive points, but there's no reason not to convey the substance thoughtfully, and that's what the site rules call for. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
> I don't care for your tone-policing practices Dan.
You've said so many times. I appreciate that you believe it's possible to maintain discussion quality on a forum like HN while still allowing the GP type of post. I have a more negative view of what's possible. I'd rather you be right than me! But I'm not willing to run that experiment, when the price of being wrong is death.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
* Actually the example given in the guidelines ("When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.") is precisely about an argument not a person.
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>I found this contribution substantive and thought provoking and almost missed sseing it because it had been unfairly flagged.
You found it agreeable, let's be honest. Someone that characterizes a response as "LMMAAAOOOO" isn't really adding anything to a discussion.
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I admit I was immature sounding in my writing there yeah.