How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by logfromblammo on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:02PM (#9040623)

On the Internet, someone is already calling you a loser, possibly without your knowledge. It's best to worry more about the folks who have greater power to destroy your social standing than just simple name-calling.

And to provide a sentinel value for the previous search space, I'll just say it. You, and everyone else who may be wondering if someone on the network is calling them a loser, are all losers.

Now that's taken care of, and you can go about your business, expressing controversial opinions without worrying about incurring greater harm to yourself than has already occurred.

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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by sillysaurus3 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:09PM (#9040664)

The reason you'll get banned for such behavior, and the whole reason why such behavior is against the rules, is because personal attacks are counterproductive to logical discussions. When HN degenerates into a group of people who go around calling other groups of people losers, that does not bode well.

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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by logfromblammo on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:52PM (#9040958)

It was, I admit, somewhat of an obscure joke. I realized, after my first sentence, that I couldn't be certain that it was true. So I added a sentinel value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo

Don't despair. Being called a loser does not make you one.

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Re:How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life by sillysaurus3 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:59PM (#9041002)

Ah, I see. Sorry about that.

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