Comment by dang

2 months ago

You both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? We ban accounts that won't, and I don't want to ban either of you.

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shkkmo  2 months ago

I'm polite in repose to being repeatedly called names and this is your response?

If you think my behavior here was truly ban worthy than do it because I don't see anything in the I would change except for engaging at all

  • dang  2 months ago

    This is the sort of thing I was referring to:

    > Instead of bothering to read and understand you have continued to call names.

    > You seemed confused, you still seem confused

    > your pointless semantic nitpick

    > you need to get some more real world experience

    I wouldn't personally call that being polite, but whatever we call it, it's certainly against HN's rules, and that's what matters.

    Edit: This may or may not be helpful (probably not!) but I wonder if you might be experiencing the "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" phenomenon that shows up pretty often on the internet - that is, we tend to underestimate the provocation in our own comments, and overestimate the provocation in others' comments, which in the end produces quite a skew (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).