Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor

Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by zalew on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @11:55PM (#5830301)

A lot of people recently try to enforce some back-patting culture. It's not what drives progress. Deal with it, you're not in pre-school anymore and nobody will give you a medal for participation. If you're unable to handle criticism and take out some value from people's opinions, you'll have a hard time in technology and in business.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by sillysaurus on Thursday June 06, 2013 @12:26AM (#5830432)

Deal with it, you're not in pre-school anymore and nobody will give you a medal for participation. If you're unable to handle criticism and take out some value from people's opinions, you'll have a hard time in technology and in business.

The problem is that people such as yourself make the world a worse place to live in and to experience. There's more to life than technology and business.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by zalew on Thursday June 06, 2013 @01:03AM (#5830545)

this thread is about posting websites, not finding the meaning of life.

congratulations on accomplishing writing the comment, have a cookie.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by sillysaurus on Thursday June 06, 2013 @01:20AM (#5830595)

HN is a community. It's not about "posting websites" any more than a club is about bbq's. And comments with aggressive overtones, such as yours, make the community worse.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by boot on Thursday June 06, 2013 @11:26AM (#5832986)

LIFE IS GAME OF CHESS DAMN IT.

why am i so lonely.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by mindcrime on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:22AM (#5831358)

As true as that all may be, there is still no reason to be a dick to people who make "Show HN" posts. One can be critical without being offensive, insulting, rude or belligerent. But too many people seem to think that being obnoxious is The Right Thing To Do for some mysterious reason.

Constructive criticism, preferably actionable feedback, is one thing. Saying "you suck" is quite another.

I'm reminded of an old saying, which goes something like (paraphrasing here): "Everyone has their own battles to fight. Be kind to everyone, for you know not what battle they are fighting".

Besides, it doesn't cost any extra to be polite and reasonable, versus being inflammatory and attacking.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by zalew on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:39AM (#5831413)

sure, but attacking the tone is fairly low too http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c349/wee-mama-xyz/argument...

you shouldn't care if someone is a dick, what you should care is if he's right.

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Re:Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor by Cthulhu_ on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:24AM (#5832238)

> you shouldn't care if someone is a dick, what you should care is if he's right.

And yet, when someone offends you or attacks you, people are unlikely to take them seriously.

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