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Re:Why bother with argv[0]? by jolmg on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:34AM (#41441924)
> it's against the rules here to those kinds of fake quotes.

What part of the guidelines are you referring to?

Also, despite the quotation marks, I don't think they mean to quote you. They're just rephrasing you as they understood you.

Coincidentally enough, I've just done that too in another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442007

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Re:Why bother with argv[0]? by cxr on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:40AM (#41447071)
<https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=13602947>

And I didn't mention the guidelines (i.e. newsguidelines.html). On that note, though:

> the site guidelines[...] aren't a list of proscribed behaviors but a set of values to internalize. I'd say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" covers this case pretty squarely

(from <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892014#15893789>)

See also:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688831#38690517>

plus lots (and lots) more.

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