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dwaiteyesterday at 6:43 PM1 replyview on HN

So all someone who is being abusive has to do to force me to be stand there and be abused by them is to call me corrupt?


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ImPostingOnHNyesterday at 6:47 PM

> So all someone who is being abusive has to do to force me to be stand there and be abused by them is to call me corrupt?

In this example, rectifying concerns is your job, so yes, you have to do it, even if 1 of the 7 parties who hold the concern is a jerk*. Officials can't dispense with rules and procedure just because their feelings are hurt.

If you are actually corrupt**, it isn't abuse. If you aren't, it still isn't abuse. Even if it is abuse, and you deal with it sanctions, you must still rectify the substance of the concerns upheld by 6 other parties.

* 1/7 would be a pretty desirable jerk/total ratio, in my experience

** (and officially behaving differently based on personal animus makes one so)