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by anonytrary 2659 days ago
This is gatekeeping at best. Pejoratives are fine on HN as long as they're accompanied with something of substance. Comments like "bro this is dumb" are in a whole different class than comments like "bro here's how it works: <actual information>". Downvoting something of substance on HN because you dislike informal jargon is really silly if you think about it.

I'd like to think he got downvoted because his information was wrong (which it might be, I'm not sure, as I am not an authority on taxes).
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jlrubin 2659 days ago
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

    Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
    When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
I'm not really sure what 'gatekeeping' is in this context, but I think that it is closest to calling names/snarky.

For what it's worth, the tax information is more or less accurate to the best of my knowledge.

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anonytrary 2659 days ago
> "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Alright, you got me, they do say that in the rules after all. But, I still don't think "broseph" is bad. People call each other bro(seph) in real life all the time and it's usually a synonym for "dude", "hey", "listen". I'd say OP was going for a funny comment rather than a derisive one.

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