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by dymk
2616 days ago
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The study you linked does nothing to imply a causal relationship. Do you think it’s a good strategy to try to undermine somebody’s position by “just asking questions” about why they hold an unpopular opinion on HN? Why not address their position directly rather than just sic a downvote mob on them? Disclaimer because you’ll undoubtably go through my comment history: I used to work at Facebook. |
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I have never understood why this is considered to be bad form.
Going through someone's comment history often provides useful context and is often one of the quickest ways to try and find out if they are discussing something in bad faith or not.
Plus it can often just be interesting.
To try and assert that it is impolite for people to read what you have chosen to post on a public forum, purely because it happens to be from a previous discussion, is to attempt to enforce a social stigma on base curiosity.
Luckily it has about as much sway as farting into a thunderstorm, but why try it in the first place?
Nobody would take an author seriously if they tried to insist that people reviewing their new book aren't allowed to read the old ones and I feel the same logic applies here.