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by nickthegreek 476 days ago
I do not read hostility there, just directness. He has a valid inquiry and states he is interested to learn more. Assume good faith.
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Agree. Not sure how, ā€œI’m super interested to learn more,ā€ indicates hostility.
I think ranscendental50's reply itself was unnecessarily hostile and don't agree with the way they responded, but I can see why they assumed hostility. "Do tell" is unfortunately to a large extent used passive aggressively on the Internet, and generally actually means "Don't bother telling me, you're obviously ignorant".

This seems to be a case where it's meant genuinely, but it's not surprising that not everyone picked up on that.