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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:57PM (#23683698)
> Early on I definitely engaged in a manner that was less than pleasant...

From your top-level comment, it sounds like you started when you were 15? So, um... I and a number of others don't really want to be judged by how we commented when we were 15. (In my case, not on HN - it didn't exist yet. But yeah, I was "less than pleasant" a lot of the time.)

Don't be too hard on yourself for the teen-age years.

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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by jolux on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:12PM (#23683926)
Mostly I said a lot of inflammatory stuff when calling out sexism and racism, and was probably ignorant and worse on other subjects too. I learned relatively quickly that my assumptions about the site were incorrect.
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Re:A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (2018) by tasuki on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:50AM (#23687360)
> Don't be too hard on yourself for the teen-age years.

Just wanted to echo this and extend it for the older of us: don't be too hard on yourself for the past.

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