Comment by staticassertion

> I don't think you can claim a middle ground here, because I still largely agree with the sentiment:

FWIW I am not claiming any middle ground. I was suggesting that maybe you were.

> Sometimes, an appropriate response or argument isn't some sort of addressing of whatever nonsense the AI spat out, but simply pointing out the unprofessionalism and absurdity of using AI to try and cancel a maintainer for rejecting their AI pull request.

Okay but we're talking about a concrete case here too. That's what was being criticized by the initial post I responded to.

> "Fuck off, clanker" is not enough by itself merely because it's too terse, too ambiguous.

This is why I was suggesting you might be appealing to a middle ground. This feels exactly like a middle ground? You're saying "is not enough", implying more, but also you're suggesting that it doesn't have to be as far as the maintainer went. This is... the middle?

(We may be at the limit of HN discussion, I think thread depth is capped)