Re:Who Invented the Alphabet?
by dang on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:20PM
(#37710215)
I'm sorry. I obviously misread you.
Unfortunately, the comment is still a flamewar starter even if you didn't intend it that way, because it didn't make your intent clear enough. I wasn't the only person who took it the wrong way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709050. If we had left it in its original position, there would likely have been others.
The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent in such cases (I was just writing about this elsewhere - perhaps it will help explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709303). And as the site guidelines say, "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Re:Who Invented the Alphabet?
by mistrial9 on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:22PM
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ok - I deeply apologize and since we are detached, I will also add that I study the Bible myself, and my first wife was in fact Jewish. Please, really sorry to be in this awkward moment
Unfortunately, the comment is still a flamewar starter even if you didn't intend it that way, because it didn't make your intent clear enough. I wasn't the only person who took it the wrong way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709050. If we had left it in its original position, there would likely have been others.
The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent in such cases (I was just writing about this elsewhere - perhaps it will help explain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709303). And as the site guidelines say, "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html