Well, hopefully the next time that you feel like making a 'meh' comment, you will at least consider whether you're making a positive contribution.

Ed made a comment that was pretty harsh, although true given the information available at the time, and is now being singled out by Techcrunch and the rest of the HN community. Of course, in fine HN tradition everybody is now jumping on Ed in exactly the same way that he jumped on Aaron at the time.

I keep remembering Tim Bray's adage that "A change in perspective is worth 40 IQ points." The average HN user has 40 IQ points more now than Ed when he wrote that comment - I don't think they have more than 40 over the current Ed.

Also note that tptacek seems to have been driven away too - hopefully not permanently.

Sorry, I was using 'you' there as a generic 'whole of HN' thing, not you specifically. I'll edit.

It was 80 IQ points and Alan Kay said it.

Thanks. I should've looked that quote up before posting.

"Next time you think about saying 'man up', just don't" might be a good lesson to learn from this.

We are here to learn, right?

"if you don't have all 'the facts available' you can give someone the benefit of of the doubt" is pretty solid advice though.