[mbrock]

I did misunderstand.

The guidelines asks the community to gently remind peers of unnecessary negativity. That's a pretty vague request. When you disagreed with my interpretation, you should have done that politely and without telling me to fuck off. I'm not always right, I can be annoying to some people, but I adhere to a baseline of civil language, and I'm open for reasonable discussion.

[verbin217]

I feel you could've eaten the "fuck off" had you really cared to. Did you read the article? This guy is (or was?) using a ⇒ symbol instead of => in Javascript source code. He's wanking a bit. I enjoyed it otherwise... That's just the right word. Idk. I'm a bit of an FP wanker. It's not so derogatory. "Fuck off" really isn't either. It just can be. And you decided it necessarily was. Who I was. And what sort've consideration and treatment I deserved. You could have responded to my actual point in combination with correcting my tone. I wasn't ranting in my first few comments. They were brief. You didn't need to be so affronted that you completely ignored them. It was just convenient. Also you are and have been following the rules while I have been aggressively disregarding them. What am I trying to do? Why do I keep escalating? Do I want to be heard?

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It's cool at this point. I know where you're coming from. I don't mean to be an ass by trolling. I ultimately wanted to be constructive. Like I wanted the anecdote. I feel this is an issue and I sort've just incited exactly my concern. Idk if that proves anything or if it just makes me a sociopath. But it's the internet so who cares. Enjoy your evening.

[mbrock]

At the risk of being even more condescending, I hear you. I get annoyed with people on the internet too. Sometimes I even manage to annoy myself. Sometimes I get so angry that I need to put on gangsta rap beats from YouTube and do my angriest Eminem impression. I just make sure nobody's looking. Mostly this happens because of npm errors, not HN comments, but whatever.

I mentioned the guidelines, you said "fuck off," so I replied tersely focusing on the impossibility of discussing forum rules with someone who blatantly disregards them. We can have a meta discussion about rules and following them and politeness and stuff, but I'm getting really hungry and I need to sleep, so, sorry for being annoying.