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by PointlessLogin 1367 days ago
Seconded.

I'm rather curious as to whether those anxious about a simple inquiry register on the autism spectrum...... This is a tech news site after all.

EDIT: Down votes for asking a speculative question? This place is turning into another Reddit.

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Your comment was correctly downvoted and flagged because it was both unsubstantive and (worse) flamebait. Could you please stop posting like that?

Also: Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

_Any_ message without context leaves me anxious. I can't tell you why, but getting a blind invite from the HoE with various C-suites on it always gets me spooked. I hate it, but after 17 years, I get on with it. Usually a quick message to someone to ask for some context as to what the meet is about is enough to calm me.
No, you get downvoted when you posit that anxious people are autistic under the guise of curiosity/speculative question. Also, not everyone reacts nicely when someone implies they might be on the spectrum. You live and learn.