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Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by colordrops on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:44AM (#31578901)
I don't know, it seems pretty common for people to be straight up on HN. I didn't get a sense of superiority or insult from the comment - just statements that the author believes to be true.
Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by bowsamic on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:55AM (#31578949)
I know that HN believes it’s immune to this, but being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations
Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by afarrell on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:39AM (#31579492)
Different social environments have different social expectations. HN has a social expectation that focusing heavily on technical considerations of how something can be done better will lead to pleasant shop-talking like OP's response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576634#31578949
Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by arinlen on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:59AM (#31579592)
> I know that HN believes it’s immune to this, but being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations

Could you please offer some insight on why trying to pass off technically wrong claims in a technical forum should be immune to any informative comment clarifying or clearing up misconceptions ?

Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by bowsamic on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:12AM (#31579652)
> why trying to pass off technically wrong claims in a technical forum should be immune to any informative comment clarifying or clearing up misconceptions

Not really, because I didn't make that claim, so you'll have to ask someone who makes that claim.

Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by arinlen on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:39AM (#31579768)
> Not really, because I didn't make that claim, so you'll have to ask someone who makes that claim.

Well, you actually did. You claimed, and I quote, "being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations"

I'm now asking you to explain the role your "social expectations" have on "being right", specifically in the case where someone in a technical forum makes technically wrong claims.

Are you able to shed some light onto this sort of belief?

Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:28AM (#31582267)
> Well, you actually did. You claimed, and I quote, "being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations"

That is a very different claim than “trying to pass off technically wrong claims in a technical forum should be immune to any informative comment clarifying or clearing up misconceptions”.

It is possible to be right without posting an “informative content clarifying of clearing up” a “technically wrong claim” and it is possible to “informative content clarifying of clearing up” a “technically wrong claim” in a manner which does not disregard social expectations.

Being right neither requires nor excuses being a jerk.

Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by bmm6o on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:46AM (#31582526)
The irony of being weirdly combative about the anodyne observation that "being right isn’t an excuse to forgo social expectations".
Re:Show HN: I made React with a faster Virtual DOM by Huggernaut on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:44AM (#31581706)
You can be right without the other person being wrong if you aren't addressing something they said.