Re:Face it: you're a crazy person
by Permit on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:41PM
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> I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being.
Splitting hairs? Maybe but I understand where the OP is coming from. Here's the 8 times (7 because one of them is the post we are discussing)
All of this tells me that this probably isn't actually an important issue to them. Such comments are noise and we should ensure that they're unwelcome here.
You're giving them too much credit. Take a look at the usages in the article they linked: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739643765/why-people-are-argu...
They're identical to their own usage of the word.
Further, they do use terms like "mad man maniac" to describe a person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12458323
All of this tells me that this probably isn't actually an important issue to them. Such comments are noise and we should ensure that they're unwelcome here.