Comment by yamazakiwi
2 years ago
I'm not trying to attack you, I was dissecting your intentions, which I'm now noticing came off as super rude and I apologize for that.
But let's be frank... It's clear through your verbiage that you were either thinking about this politically or were actually just curious as I stated in my previous message.
I never said you were lazy, there are many reasons why you might not be able to try out the product right now and it's totally normal to ask questions when you assume others might have answers. It's also possible to do selfish things, or think selfishly at times and not be a selfish person, I was not trying to antagonize.
Sorry for misunderstanding your intentions, for some reason when you asked "What does desensationalize exactly mean?" I read it particularly negatively.
I read the OPs comment seemingly in a completely different way than you.
To me, it's just a comment asking how it may work (technically). Pretty normal to ask that on HN. The persons feelings or intentions aren't reflected in the comment and I think aren't relevant to the question either way.
I think it's the word "Exactly" in his sentence that changes the meaning away from "I'm intellectually curious" for me. I'm just reading between the lines but the op can change their intention as they please and deny so whatever I say at this point is irrelevant and it's likely I was being too cheeky.
Wouldn't someone who was intellectually curious just ask: "That's interesting, I wonder how it works?" and not: "What does desensationalized exactly mean?" which is overly negative. Incidentally, I'm being accused of being negative for pointing that out.
May I polity just say that perhaps defending yourself to this many people is unneeded. You said your two cents, hammering the same nail with a different hammer won't get the nail in any deeper. I've already completely moved on, you should as well. We are in HN, not reddit, let's all get a long as best as we can and discuss the matters at hand. I have no problems with you, I hope you have nothing against me.
My intentions were not negative, if it was interpreted that way I apologize, same as you I type the way I type.
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