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Re:Please don't be spooky by PointlessLogin on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:29AM (#32863609)
Seconded.

I'm rather curious as to whether those anxious about a simple inquiry register on the autism spectrum...... This is a tech news site after all.

EDIT: Down votes for asking a speculative question? This place is turning into another Reddit.

Re:Please don't be spooky by dang on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:32AM (#32864034)
Your comment was correctly downvoted and flagged because it was both unsubstantive and (worse) flamebait. Could you please stop posting like that?

Also: Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Re:Please don't be spooky by imakeinternet on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:58AM (#32863820)
_Any_ message without context leaves me anxious. I can't tell you why, but getting a blind invite from the HoE with various C-suites on it always gets me spooked. I hate it, but after 17 years, I get on with it. Usually a quick message to someone to ask for some context as to what the meet is about is enough to calm me.
Re:Please don't be spooky by cranium on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:45AM (#32864122)
No, you get downvoted when you posit that anxious people are autistic under the guise of curiosity/speculative question. Also, not everyone reacts nicely when someone implies they might be on the spectrum. You live and learn.