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shkkmolast Saturday at 8:00 PM1 replyview on HN

I'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


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danglast Saturday at 8:40 PM

This 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&qu...).