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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by dang on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:50PM (#26309577)
Personal attacks will get you banned here. We've had to warn you about this more than once before. Please don't do it again.

(Edit: I got this part wrong - sorry wayneftw! It's particularly bad that you bullied another user into removing what was probably an interesting story. That makes the thread strictly worse, whether or not you felt like it answered your specific question.)

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? The intention is curious conversation—not bashing other people or their positions, even if you feel like they have wrong positions.

Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by wayneftw on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:31AM (#26328736)
> It's particularly bad that you bullied another user into removing what was probably an interesting story.

That's not what happened. They removed it before I even posted a reply. By the time my reply came up, their story was gone and I had to navigate backwards to copy it. Please look at timestamps or something and remove this warning.

Aside from that, the story was not interesting. It just said that they worked there for a number of years and that their coworkers seemed trustworthy. Also that they couldn't get user documents along with stack traces. I left the most salient bits.

> Personal attacks will get you banned here.

Where's the personal attack? I responded directly to what their comment said, nothing more. And, I didn't get personal - I got sarcastic about what they said. And I apologized for it.

Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by dang on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:06PM (#26331272)
Yikes that's bad - I'm sorry! I made up a story around a wrong assumption. I try not to, and I tell HN users several times a day not to, yet it's still incredibly easy. I've added a note to my comment above, and I'll try to remember this case for similar occasions in the future.

Re personal attack - if you go after what another person is saying that aggressively and use the second-person pronoun a lot, it starts to bleed into personal attack. Particularly "you’ve found nothing out of sorts. Got it" struck me as attacking the other person's integrity.