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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by kilgnad on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:08AM (#34921781)
HN is loaded with passive aggressive shit to get around the rules.

Stuff like "It's so strange and puzzling to see someone act illogically when the reasoning is so obvious."

It's basically calling someone a dumbass^,

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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by 41amxn41 on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:30AM (#34921941)
Exactly. It's unnatural, not to mention, boring.
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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by Y_Y on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:26AM (#34921915)
Well bless your heart
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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by bobleeswagger on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:22AM (#34921869)
> HN is loaded with passive aggressive shit to get around the rules.

It's almost like the rules are fostering an environment of self-censorship.

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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by glass3 on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:10AM (#34922576)
How could that be improved? Allowing insults to prevent passive aggressiveness doesn't seem right.
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Re:Ask Dang: What tools do you use for moderating HN? by kilgnad on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:01PM (#34930074)
Yeah my post is flagged by the typical myopic HN user. Anyway to answer your question passive aggressiveness should be called out. It should be flagged. You can't talk to people that way anymore than you can insult them directly.

What I think should be legal to say is hard statements. Like, "You're wrong." Or "what you said doesn't make sense. " You need these statements to express disagreement and I think spending effort to make it polite just derails the conversation for the sake of being polite.

But passive aggressiveness with the intent to refocus the subject of the conversation onto the speaker himself is a deliberate act of malice. That should be flagged.

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