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by ahofmann 704 days ago
From the Hackernews guidelines: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

Someone spend two years on something, something that could be very useful for someone. Your comment kind of shits on all of that without providing anything useful for the creator of this tool, or anyone else.
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constantcrying 704 days ago
I honestly do not believe this should exist, it is a bad idea and anyone using it will use it to make a worse website.

Of course I do realize that this might be hurtful to the individual who has spent time on this, but that doesn't change my opinion one bit. Animations on the web are already overused, having a framework dedicated to making them even more overused will make websites even worse. I absolutely think that OP should spend his time on something else.

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spiderice 704 days ago
You have missed the point entirely. The problem isn’t that you have a hurtful opinion. It’s that you’re being an ass about it.
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constantcrying 704 days ago
No, I didn't miss that point.

To be honest I would tell you that I don't care about "being an ass", but that would be a lie. I want OP to stop developing this nonsense and spend his time elsewhere. Obviously getting some pushback is necessary for that.

There is no way of saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it", without "being an ass".

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fragmede 704 days ago
> I think what I love most about websites is if they have extremely fancy animations which artificially delay actions and confuse the user. Really awesome to see people spending time, not on how information can be clearly and plainly communicated, but how to obfuscate that information and bury it under eye candy.

You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment? you couldn't not be an ass and state plainly that there's an excessive amount of eyecandy for your tastes, and that you feel it gets in the way of communication? The sardonic tone of "I think what I love the most..." doesn't set off your internal "wait, hold on, I'm being an ass and might consider rewording my comment" alarm?

Saying "you completely wasted your time and should delete your project before someone uses it" would be a less ass way to say the same thing, even! It's still ass, but less than what you wrote, imo.

But even then, the project isn't harming anyone else, so who are you to decide what they spend their time on? What have you done to cure cancer today and why haven't you done more? People get to choose what they do and as long as they aren't hurting someone else, it's up to them how they want to use their time.

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constantcrying 704 days ago
You are totally missing the point. Didn't you read my last post?

>You really don't see any other way to word that same sentiment?

The problem with being polite is that the other too easily mistakes the politeness itself for encouragement, even if the comment is entirely negative. Generally ridicule is a good way to get someone to stop, as it makes very clear what you think and discourages continuing. Of course name calling is too easily dismissed and can easily lead to defiance. As discussed before, any kind of politeness is easily ignored or mistaken as positivity.

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ahofmann 704 days ago
Well, in the future, I will just stop reading when the post is from the user "constantcrying".
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