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by green1 2389 days ago
> But your comment was way over from the beginning.

Honestly bemused by this. How is the following single sentence way over the line, other than the parts I quoted (which amount to about half of it)?

    So your personal experience does nothing less than illustrate Google's
    tracking to an "obvious" degree, but my personal experience is simply 
    "making a sweeping judgement" and "confusing this with knowledge for the
    sake of my own cognitive hygiene".
It's just a simple question asking why their personal experience shows something "obvious" (their word) about Google tracking, whereas mine doesn't.

Thanks for the links to the newcomments/noobcomments
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dang 2388 days ago
That wasn't a simple question. It was a sarcastic lashing-out. You've omitted your own punch line ("Thanks for clearing that up") in order to make it sound more neutral than it was.

The difference is that the GP was not primarily bilious and was making a point about something else, even if it crossed into personal territory slightly. Your comment was only about how pissed off you were about that. When threads get to this nasty meta place ("so your foo is nothing less than a bar while my baz is simply a bing. thanks for clearing that up"), conversation is dead. Letting downvotes and flags trigger you into adding indignant edits is another tell-tale sign.

I know that it smarts to get burned by another comment and yes, the GP should have been more thoughtful, but users here need to work on metabolizing such feelings rather than just pumping them back into the thread. Otherwise we just end up with nastiness. Anyone who wants to work on themselves in that way is welcome here, but if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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