Re:Betty Davis has died
by teddyh on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:00PM
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As it happens, no. I almost never look at usernames, as the design of HN discourages from doing so, by making user names hard to read. And even if I had, is moderatorial infallibility a dogma? Put another way, does any conversation improve by “do you know who I am?”? What is the purpose of your comment? To make me retract my comment because I didn’t know who I was disagreeing with?
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Re:Betty Davis has died
by skinnymuch on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:10PM
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The OP may have not necessarily been doing something along the lines of appeal to authority.
They could have just been informing you.
We are supposed to take good faith assumptions, right?
OTOH, I feel you with what you wrote. In general the things you wrote are unfortunately common.
Your second sentence about never looking at usernames and so on.
People have befriended either for networking purposes or otherwise, others on HN. It doesn’t have to be a cold straight forward only place