Your post is weaker for it. The word "fuck" was appropriate to express what you wanted to express. The word "forget" is lame and forgettable. I'm sorry to see your post neutered by some kind of sudden appearance of a PC-police on HN, using the excuse of sama's post to try and restrict your way to express your ideas (which are not showing any of the kind of "gratuitous negativity" that sama talks about in his post). For shame.

That's correct. Thanks for saying so. If there is any sincere misunderstanding it may be necessary to repeat this a few times, but hopefully it won't last.

I didn't see the original version of your comment, but it was probably fine.

It's natural for there to be a few glitches while the community works out how to interpret what "gratuitous negativity" means in practice, but as a hint, we're mostly talking about being mean to others and/or being glibly dismissive of their work. We're definitely not talking about bowdlerizing conversation. We'd hate that as much as most HN users would.