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javawizard • yesterday at 8:27 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Ok, this:

> Stupid comment

got me. There's literally an HN rule about this: [0]

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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yellowapple • today at 7:21 AM

> I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

    PRAGMA sarcasm = ON;
No, fuck you, I'm going to call you names and shit all over you over a mild disagreement!

    PRAGMA sarcasm = OFF;
But yes, one of the refreshing things about HN is that even when conversations get heated, the participants tend to at least keep to the topic and respect one another / assume good faith. There will of course always be slip-ups on that (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't guilty of that on occasion), but they've managed to be pretty rare (and/or quickly caught by the admins) even as HN has grown in popularity.