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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by rosndo on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:53PM (#31046934)
> but we are far from agreeing that large financial institutions are inherently competent because they're large.

I don’t see anyone making that argument.

Speculating on an ETF “accidentally” acquiring more than 15% of Twitter implies a whole different level of incompetence than a big ETF ever fucking up big.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by kolbe on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:01PM (#31046996)
> Seriously, do you think funds playing with the kind of money to buy 15% of twitter often make careless purchases?

- You

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dang on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:31PM (#31054808)
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we've already warned you several times. If it keeps up we're going to end up having to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by rosndo on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:30PM (#31055829)
What’s the problem with my comment? The word “fuck”? The fact that the other commenter got offended because I pointed out their very real struggles with reading comprehension?

I did not call kolbes comments bad, but patiently explained where they got it wrong.

I think you’re seeing fighting where there’s none, at least not on my side.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dang on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:31AM (#31058752)
For starters, "Yeah, I’m sorry that you can’t understand English" was obviously an egregious violation of the site guidelines.

We don't care about people saying "fuck". We care about the things that are in the guidelines, such as being kind, not being snarky, not calling names, and so on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by rosndo on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:52AM (#31059719)
There are billions of people on this planet who can’t understand English, there’s nothing wrong with them.

It’s really not unkind to point out when someone is aggressively misinterpreting really simple words.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dang on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:32PM (#31062544)
What you wrote would be taken by most readers as an obvious personal attack. If you say you didn't intend it that way, ok, but we still have to ban accounts that post like that, because such comments are indistinguishable from garden-variety personal attacks.
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by kolbe on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:33PM (#31047260)
Good luck with that perspective in life. I'll stick with writing clearly. You stick with writing poorly and flipping out whenever people misunderstand your intentions.
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dang on Saturday April 16, 2022 @02:33PM (#31054827)
You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do that, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. We ban accounts that do that because it's so destructive of what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html