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Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font by tptacek on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:37PM (#43778788)
You should care if you're being combatative, but, even more importantly, quoting previous comments the way you're doing doesn't work well on HN and is also a flamewar trope. Everybody can read the comments you're responding to. Just refer back to them in prose. A single quote, maybe 2 in a long comment, fine, but what you're doing now creates the impression that you're sort of rebutting what the previous commenter said as you read them, sentence by sentence, which is a tell that you're not actually thinking about what they said.

Also: they're pretty clearly wrong, so you shouldn't need any of this to refute them.

Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font by wubrr on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @11:28PM (#43779006)
I am rebutting what the previous commenter said, sentence by sentence (almost), I don't know why that tells you that I'm not actually thinking about what they said though. Did I misunderstand or misrepresent something they said?
Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font by gpvos on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:51AM (#43780569)
Going against someone is not the same as rebutting, the quality of the argument counts.
Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font by dcow on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:18PM (#43785783)
Because it’s easy to respond to one-off sentences. It’s harder to respond to the substantial argument they make.
Re:You Wouldn't Steal a Font by wubrr on Friday April 25, 2025 @12:39PM (#43795716)
What substantial argument?