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by wyclif 3939 days ago
I've been around here a lot longer than you have. I do know, and I have, but sometimes nastiness needs to be called out.
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DanBC 3939 days ago
Sure, but you know that you shouldn't call put nastiness by being nasty.
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wyclif 3939 days ago
No, I don't know that. I think I did the right thing. Thanks for chiming in, though.
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DanBC 3939 days ago
A search for dang and for the word nastiness turns up many results of him asking people to stop being unpleasant.

Most relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9658134

> Responding to nastiness with more nastiness is the surest way to destroy HN. The way to help is to gently point out that we all need to follow the site guidelines.

But there are very many others.

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