Comment by wpietri
2 years ago
I thought it was funny. They had an experience that amused them and they shared it. Not everything has to be to your personal tastes.
If you think that's one of the worst kind of internet comments, you might want to recalibrate a bit. I have a variety of things from my anti-abuse work that I'd be happy to send you.
If you do anti-abuse work, maybe you're the one with a wonky calibration. No offense intended, I appreciate your work.
I live on an Internet where I mainly don't have to see any abuse, thanks to moderation and algorithms and probably good folks like yourself.
Anyway, I think you're missing my point. Look around, here in situ on HN, and compare it to even an average quality comment.
Your theory is that because I have seen abusive content, my sense of humor is now so broken that the things I find funny are objectively bad? That makes no sense at all.
Also, it's wild to see that somebody who's been using this site about 4% of the time I have telling me that I just don't get the context.
Sure, bub. Your personal preferences just happen to be objectively correct, and mine are due to my ignorance and brokenness. Whatever you say.
> Your theory is that because I have seen abusive content, my sense of humor is now so broken that the things I find funny are objectively bad?
No, I did not present this theory, in my actual comment or any implication it made.
My theory is that if your job is dealing with abusive comments, perhaps you aren't judging the non-abusive comments properly in terms of what constitutes a bad comment. All kinds of bad comments can be funny. Jokes are generally considered bad comments here on HN, for instance.
I'll pass on the snark, have a good day my man.
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