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Re:Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill? by saxonww on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:18PM (#31162914)
I think the point is that you can strongly disagree with a statement without painting its author as incompetent. Regardless of whether that was the intent, that's certainly how it reads.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill? by twayt on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:32PM (#31163008)
Going one step further, you can strongly disagree with a statement without attaching a value judgement to the other person's argument.

In spirit, this rule should hold even if you aren't attacking the author directly but are disparaging the value of their perspective.

That is simply unnecessary and you can just refute the point directly.

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