Re:Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes
by whateveracct on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:40PM
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So if I say arbitrary stuff like what I was responding too but use enough words, it's all good? The "just make a company" is not just unsubstantive but also a completely fake idea :) it's comical propaganda dressed up in verbiage
Sounds like the issue isn't content but rather whether something is quippy or wordy.
Re:Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes
by dang on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:23PM
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Yes and no. The way to refute a bad comment is by respectfully providing better information, and this is very much a question of content. "This is some capitalist nonsense" obviously doesn't do that.
It may feel to you like you were refuting the GP as much as it deserved, but from the point of view of an open-minded reader who's here to learn and doesn't have a fixed position, your comment contains no information, only name-calling.
Don't forget that all this is a matter of degree. Degrees of badness matter; responding to a bad comment with a still-worse one is a step in the wrong direction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html