Comment by antiterra
13 years ago
Hyperbole isn't the same thing as dishonesty or malice. If you believe a poster sincerely thinks white on yellow text is a crime against humanity in a world of child soldiers, oppressive regimes, systemic corruption and walled garden app ecosystems, then why would you consider their opinion relevant in the first place?
> If you believe a poster sincerely thinks white on yellow text is a crime against humanity in a world of child soldiers, oppressive regimes, systemic corruption and walled garden app ecosystems, then why would you consider their opinion relevant in the first place?
Inserting 10000 records, each in their own transaction, is a crime against humanity.
Posting comments with get requests and without csrf tokens is a crime against humanity
I can sincerely believe these are crimes against humanity, and still be right. What I believe to be crimes against humanity is not going to affect xss in any way.
By your analogy, if Hitler says exercising is good, you will respond "why would you consider his opinion in the first place".
Hitler had some good qualities? Yes. Do you have to be Hitler to have those? No. Does being Hitler help? No.
The point is simply that you can ignore someone telling you that your font kerning is giving babies cancer. It doesn't mean your font kerning is good, but, for most applications of font kerning, you don't have to worry about the cancer.