Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business

Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by dang on Saturday September 05, 2015 @04:12PM (#10175923)

You've been consistently uncivil in this thread. Please don't do that. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Most of us slip up from time to time and we all read things on HN that unduly provoke us, but it's critical not to channel that into rudeness on the site.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by ksk on Saturday September 05, 2015 @04:53PM (#10176016)

I was responding to rudeness in kind. Too bad. I guess I need to be sneaky like the others in phrasing it.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by dang on Saturday September 05, 2015 @09:03PM (#10176514)

Please don't be sneaky in phrasing it. Instead, edit it out. Sneaky rudeness is a worse problem on HN than outright rudeness is, because it's more insidious. Outright rudeness at least tends to get flagged.

> I was responding to rudeness in kind.

Maybe so. But most everyone feels that way, so it's not an ok reason to break the rules.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by krapp on Saturday September 05, 2015 @05:34PM (#10176111)

That is half of what civility is - not being overtly hostile.

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