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Funny, I wasn't talking about you specifically, but you spent your response talking about you. Since you have made it about you, you put yourself up as an ex

by BitGeek 19y ago

Funny, I wasn't talking about you specifically, but you spent your response talking about you. Since you have made it about you, you put yourself up as an example, thus continuing to argue my points would be easily construed as bashing you personally. Making it personal in debate is never a good strategy... further, on multiple occassions you misconstrued or misrepresnted the points I was making... so I'm not going to respond to that either.

pg 19y ago
I can't tell if you are a deliberate troll or just a very angry person, but nearly all your recent comments consist entirely of remarks about the person you're replying to, and have no information about the point being discussed. Please stop. This is not reddit.
- BitGeek 19y ago
  Your comment consisted entiredly of remarks about my person, and had no information about the point being discussed. Thus, either you are a hypocrite, or I am being asked to stop because I have an opinion that (apparently) disagrees with yours. Further irony comes in the fact that you made this comment in response to me pointing out that the discussion was beind directed towards becoming personal by the person who responded to me, and stating that I wasn't going to go that direction. Finally, both calling me a troll or stating I'm a "very angry person" are personal attacks. Communities tend to follow the lead of their ostensible leader-- and you have just communicated to everyone that personal attacks are OK.
  - jsjenkins168 19y ago
    Calm down man.. This forum is focused on startup news, and pg is just trying to moderate and maintain a high SNR by keeping threads on topic and relatively clean.
    - BitGeek 19y ago
      That was a completely calm response. PG is engaging in exactly the behaviour he was accusing me of. I don't see how "namecalling" is keeping a high signal to noise ratio.
      - Sam_Odio 19y ago
        You're right - maybe pg didn't express himself in the right way. However - you have to forgive him. He's just trying to prevent News.YC from turning into reddit. I think all he's asking is that you (and everyone else here) make a concerted effort to not engage in flame wars, pointless arguments, personal attacks, etc. Let's just try to keep these discussions intelligent and courteous.

by BitGeek 19y ago

pg 19y ago

I can't tell if you are a deliberate troll or just a very angry person, but nearly all your recent comments consist entirely of remarks about the person you're replying to, and have no information about the point being discussed. Please stop. This is not reddit.

BitGeek 19y ago
Your comment consisted entiredly of remarks about my person, and had no information about the point being discussed. Thus, either you are a hypocrite, or I am being asked to stop because I have an opinion that (apparently) disagrees with yours. Further irony comes in the fact that you made this comment in response to me pointing out that the discussion was beind directed towards becoming personal by the person who responded to me, and stating that I wasn't going to go that direction. Finally, both calling me a troll or stating I'm a "very angry person" are personal attacks. Communities tend to follow the lead of their ostensible leader-- and you have just communicated to everyone that personal attacks are OK.
- jsjenkins168 19y ago
  Calm down man.. This forum is focused on startup news, and pg is just trying to moderate and maintain a high SNR by keeping threads on topic and relatively clean.
  - BitGeek 19y ago
    That was a completely calm response. PG is engaging in exactly the behaviour he was accusing me of. I don't see how "namecalling" is keeping a high signal to noise ratio.
    - Sam_Odio 19y ago
      You're right - maybe pg didn't express himself in the right way. However - you have to forgive him. He's just trying to prevent News.YC from turning into reddit. I think all he's asking is that you (and everyone else here) make a concerted effort to not engage in flame wars, pointless arguments, personal attacks, etc. Let's just try to keep these discussions intelligent and courteous.