Can you please not do this here? That is, not fulminate and not cross into personal attack in HN comments?

I realize that this kind of remark is better-intentioned than it comes across on the internet. In personal conversation it can be just another way of chatting and making sense of the world. Tone of voice can do a lot to modulate pejoratives.

But in an online forum like HN it degrades and makes conversation more shallow, and tends to evoke worse from others, leading to downward-spiral-mode, which we're really trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That is a fair criticism. I’m letting my frustration with longer-term behaviors in social media influence my comments, and this is an inappropriate forum. I appreciate the correction.

Thanks for the kind reply!

You have a hard unenviable job. No reason for me to make your day worse, and you were right to call me out. Sometimes we all need someone else to give us a little friendly reminder that this is not the time or place.

Thanks for all the work you put into making sure this place isn’t a cess pool.