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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by yummyfajitas on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @06:17AM (#8657249)
The original version said "you are the problem". It's hardly cursing someone out, but it is certainly more hostility than is normally desired here.
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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by philh on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:38AM (#8657854)
I agree, that version is absolutely a personal attack.
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Re:What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders by tptacek on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @01:35PM (#8658962)
Like I said upthread: there is a difference between saying that someone with a particular misconception is a reason to build a website, and literally attacking them for holding that misconception. Altman's comment was a little personalized, but in context only a little bit: the only thing Altman could have known about the commenter was that they held the misconception.

To push it over the line into "personal attack", maybe it would need to read something more like:

"You're the reason we had to waste time building this site."

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