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0 pointsjustfordang6y ago0 comments

I know you are a gigantic egomaniac and I'm wasting my time writing this, but if you could ever repress your inflated sense of (mis)justice for two seconds, you might notice that the poster actually asked a perfectly valid question.

With the context presented so far (zero, for those keeping score at home), there's no reason to assume that the poster is dismissive of the project being discussed.

Why IS Mirth needed, when we can improve other languages? This is actually a perfect segue for proponents of Mirth to explain the niche the language occupies and it's pros and cons for users/engineers.

Thanks for making HN cancer, dang. Honestly, you're jumping up random asses on the internet that you'll never meet nor matter to is why the quality of discussion on HN has reached the trough it seems comfortably rested in. But hey. You posted the guidelines. You're a hero.

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coldtea6y ago

>I know you are a gigantic egomaniac and I'm wasting my time writing this, but if you could ever repress your inflated sense of (mis)justice for two seconds, you might notice that the poster actually asked a perfectly valid question.

Also a perfectly trivial one, an insulting one, and one that has been asked countless times, and that has no real place in a post presenting a new language but goes to meta yak shaving philosophy.

(A question like "what are Mirths differentiating points, what new does it bring" would be an acceptable version -- but that wasn't what was asked).

Note that by starting with "I know you are a gigantic egomaniac" and "inflated sense" and "Thanks for making HN cancer", you already show that you don't have a valid contribution to the discussion either. It even seems like the content of the discussion was secondary, just needed to vent at someone...

0_gravitas6y ago

Seeing as his account is 11 hours old as of my writing this and that this is his only comment I have a little paranoid-detective feeling that this may be from PC, just an alt account, even if not they are clearly a very angry person

dang6y ago

Not as far as I can tell. There are users whose emotions have taken this form for whatever reason, and they show up like superheroes in arbitrary scenes.

That comment was killed automatically by HN's anti-troll software, but I unkilled it last night. Maybe that was a mistake since it led to more offtopicness.

openfuture6y ago

Wow.. and you don't feel like the comment you made is contributing to the problem?

If you want to live in a society where respect trickles up instead of violence trickling down then you mustn't express yourself with violence.

Buge6y ago

Insults like this are very annoying to read. If you think the moderation is too strict and is hurting HN's environment, then say that. There's no need to be so mean about it.

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