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Joshua, I'm sorry for posting your regret of selling to Y. I hope it did not distress you too much to see it. I should not have done it.

• pvg 17y ago
  You didn't do anything wrong. A newsworthy public comment made by a public person (certainly 'newsworthy' and 'public' in the context of a site called 'Hacker News'). What Joshua (enabled by PG) did was simply silly. Don't add to the silliness by brown-nosing.
  • joshu 17y ago
    It's a reddit thing. Not polite here.
    • pvg 17y ago
      Let's assume that's the case (although it's a strange custom because, again, it's quite conceivable someone comments something that in itself is newsworthy and comment-on-able). If it's impolite, presumably the magical social filter will take care of it by downvoting or ignoring. Calling in the heavy artillery for something trivial like that is still ham-handed and unwarranted. You can't have said something like that unaware that it will end up all over the place anyway, as it did.
      • joshu 17y ago
        The thread was flagged and removed before PG got to it. So yes, it was voted against social mores.
        • idlewords 17y ago
          It was voted because you asked people to flag it
          • joshu 17y ago
            Sure. But they did it.
  • phony_identity 17y ago
    Not brownnosing. I should have realized that if I wasn't comfortable posting this under my real name I shouldn't have posted it at all. Definitely newsworthy and interesting, however.