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Re:The power of role models by pvg on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:49AM (#13737752)
>you should judge what I say, not how I say it.

That seems obviously inaccurate in any moderated forum. Or we'd all be published New Yorker writers.

Re:The power of role models by nielsabel on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:36PM (#13738449)
You're confusing being a good writer with being polite.
Re:The power of role models by pvg on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:17PM (#13739571)
No.
Re:The power of role models by nielsabel on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:18AM (#13742286)
Oh, I guess you must be right then …
Re:The power of role models by grzm on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:29AM (#13742327)
The HN community strongly values civil—even polite—discourse. If that's something you don't feel is necessary and choose to ignore, please refrain from commenting on HN.
Re:The power of role models by nielsabel on Monday February 27, 2017 @04:16AM (#13742942)
Again, what was so horribly offensive and insulting about my post? I don't see it. Sure, I wasn't sugar coating. But all I'm getting here is: “You're not polite, because <insert inapt analogy>”.
Re:The power of role models by DanBC on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:02AM (#13743115)
You've got a new account. Several people are trying to tell you that your posting style is not appropriate for HN.

People are giving you this information by flagging your posts, by downvoting your posts, and by replying to your posts. One of the people replying to your posts is a mod.

You can ignore those people, but that tends to mean your account will end up banned.

> Sure, I wasn't sugar coating.

This is a mistake people often make. You're not being asked to sugar coat anything. You're being asked to stop being rude and to reign in the ranting.

Re:The power of role models by nielsabel on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:33AM (#13743248)
But still, nobody has told me yet what was so rude about my post. How do you expect me to fix my behavior if you don't explain me what was wrong about it? “You're rude.” “well, how exactly?”
Re:The power of role models by dang on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:25PM (#13747091)
> nobody has told me yet what was so rude

You haven't made it clear that you sincerely want to know. It takes a lot of time and energy to respond to a question like that—I'd guess a couple orders of magnitude more than it costs to post the question.

The risk/reward of giving you a sincere answer is very different if your goal is to become a good HN contributor vs. merely continue an argument which interests no one. If you want people to answer, you need to show that it won't be a waste of their investment to do so.