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Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by dang on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:00PM (#33649431)
Please don't call names on HN and especially please don't do psychiatric name-calling.

You may not owe billionaire CEOs who you feel are psychopathic better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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

Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by giantdude on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:32AM (#33650780)
Please look up the definition of psychopathy.

I can see that you are impressed by his wealth and title, but I owe this community a voice to balance yours.

Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by dang on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:01AM (#33650965)
Tossing pejoratives like 'psychopath' around in information-free ways is a marker of a bad HN comment, regardless of who it is you're putting down—although the celebrity aspect makes it worse because it adds sensationalism. If you've read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, it should be obvious that this isn't in the intended spirit of the site.

It's common for people to conclude that the mods secretly hold the opposing view to theirs*. I suppose the logic goes like this: (1) I can't possibly have broken the rules; (2) yet the moderator has scolded me; (3) why? there must be some other reason; (4) it must be that they disagree with me. The mistake is at step (1). The truth is, we don't care—we just want commenters to follow the rules. If it isn't obvious that your comment broke the rules, of which comment would that be obvious?

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...