Comment by dang
6 days ago
Can you please roll back the snark and flamebait in your comments? It has been upticking again for quite a while, to the point where notice I'm bracing myself when I see your username in threads.
Since you've adjusted this in the past, I'm sure you can do so again, and we'd appreciate it. We like that you're here, but need you to stay within the guidelines.
Sure.
I never do flamebait and rarely do snark tho (usually only after several increasingly futile exchanges).
Flippant comments (like the autotune one) and/or sincerely held even if unpopular opinions, I'll stoop to, yes.
Thanks! Yes, translated into your terms it sounds like the flippant ones I was referring to.
Unpopular opinions are fine in principle - we definitely want to hear minority views on HN. But it's super common for people to pre-emptively load their unpopular-opinion comments with sarcastic or aggressive language, no doubt as a defensive against the anticipated negative reacction from the majority (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). That never works well. But I'm just speaking generally - I don't know if it applies to your posts.