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by CPUstring 1860 days ago
A character assassination would be something like "He does something morally reprehensible (cheating, selling ads to three year olds, etc". The above post is more like "He harps on multiple things he maybe shouldn't, and has an outraged user-base he keeps stoked, so that should be taken into account."

If I said, "I find his voice really grating and his outrage mostly makes me dislike him" that isn't a character assassination- just my opinion he is unlikeable.
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dataflow 1860 days ago
> If I said, "I find his voice really grating and his outrage mostly makes me dislike him" that isn't a character assassination- just my opinion he is unlikeable.

Then you're not reading what some folks are writing. To some people here he seems to be a "bad person". e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27257657

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camehere3saydis 1860 days ago
A sizable portion of the audience here considers selling ads morally reprehensible in itself.

This, on the other hand:

>The guy is monetizing a certain base. Probably doing pretty well out of it.

OP does say it as if there's something wrong with it.

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defaultname 1860 days ago
How does that quote remotely imply there is something "wrong" with it (aside from it obviously factoring into credibility)? Another person took the exact same quote and declared that it betrayed jealousy. This borders on parody.
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CRConrad 1859 days ago
If that doesn't "remotely" imply anything to you, have you considered whether you're perhaps just a little less sensitive to linguistic nuance than others? And that this doesn't necessarily mean that it is they who are overly sensitive?
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me_me_me 1860 days ago
> If I said, "I find his voice really grating and his outrage mostly makes me dislike him" that isn't a character assassination- just my opinion he is unlikeable.

If you were in court for an act you didn't commit and the prosecutor said:

"I find his voice really grating and his outrage mostly makes me dislike him"

What would you said to this?

This commenthas noting to do with anything. Its a pointless opinion nothing to do with given case. And its a vague ad-hominem attack.

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