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by shkkmo 9mo ago
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- dang 9mo agoYou both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 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.
- shkkmo 9mo agoI'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 9mo agoThis 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&query=by%3Adang%2010x&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
- zephen 9mo agoSorry, and thanks. I know moderation is a tough gig.