Comment by Dylan16807

9 hours ago

I can phrase it a different way.

"Not everyone is you. Tons of experienced programmers and hackers don't know the name of the Erlang VM. Don't be an ass about it."

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jabbywocker  9 hours ago

He wasn’t an ass about it. And the people who don’t know what BEAM is can easily google their way to more information than they’d ever be able to get from a comment here.

Edit: I will say that’s a better take. It’s at least blatant about it being the personal attack you intended it to be instead of passive aggressively couching it behind the pretense of caring about community. If you want to be shitty to people, just do it. I’d prefer honest assholes than weasely manipulators.

  • Dylan16807  9 hours ago

    Oh you made an edit.

    You're looking at where I told someone not be rude, and you're interpreting that as a personal attack from me? Because I "want to be shitty"? No.

    And the mention of community is not a pretense. I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing. (This is separate from how easy it is to google.)

    Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful" is much more personal than anything I said.

    • jabbywocker  1 minute ago

      > You're looking at where I told someone not be rude

      That’s just it, you didn’t tell them not to be rude. You hid behind nebulous shunning of “gatekeeping”.

      >I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing

      Again, you didn’t actually do that though, did you? Instead you used the term colloquially meant to signal they are creating a “hostile” environment

      > Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful"

      I’m distinctly not calling out personal attacks, I literally just gave you a thumbs up for doing it instead of taking the virtue signaling finger wagging approach you previously used.

  • Dylan16807  9 hours ago

    "I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed." is being an ass to a lot of people.

    • jabbywocker  9 hours ago

      I disagree, but I don’t think we’ll see eye-to-eye on much when it comes to the behavior of commentators