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Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by alex_c on Sunday November 16, 2008 @01:49PM (#366179)
Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by wesley on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:01PM (#366187)
To be fair, your Obama question was retarded. Sorry, I'm being honest.
Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by davidw on Sunday November 16, 2008 @03:38PM (#366259)
Can't you think of a better put-down than "retarded"? It's one of those nasty things to say that show the truth to the phrase "don't get into an argument with an idiot, lest people have trouble discerning which one is the idiot". Not to mention that it's apparently offensive to people who have friends and family who suffer from Down Syndrome.

Let's see... brainstorming...

"Your query regarding the probability of the Obama team dedicating any time to a niche technology site demonstrates a lack of connection to reality usually associated with people who have recently ingested large quantities of mind-altering substances."

I'm sure that could be improved upon, but this isn't really the appropriate place for that sort of thing.

Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by mellow on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:16PM (#366201)
To be fair, POTUS is one of the most important people in the World. His team should be reading news.ycombinator.com for many (I would have thought, obvious) reasons.
Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by hugh on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:46PM (#366220)
OK, now I suspect you're a troll, and that tsetse-fly is some kind of sock-puppet, and that you really need to think of something better to do with your time than this.

update: No, now I come to look at it, tsetse-fly has been around for a while and made some sensible comments, so probably isn't a sockpuppet. mellow, on the other hand, is 14 days old and has mostly posted rubbish.

Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by tsetse-fly on Sunday November 16, 2008 @01:52PM (#366182)
More context: http://news.ycombinator.net/submitted?id=mellow

Plus one about aliens that was killed.

Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by Raphael on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:54PM (#366224)
The cat one was funny.
Re:Ask YC: Should we flag Trolls? by mellow on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:12PM (#366197)
I thought the one about Aliens was prescient. Oh well.