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by grandalf 4602 days ago
Two comments:

First, the profanity does not add any kind of flourish to your writing. I'm not the least bit offended by profanity. I'm just mentioning to you that your use of it is awkward, like toilet paper stuck to a shoe. Whether I agree with your point or not it just makes it worse than it would have otherwise been and does not add the zing or oomph you apparently think it does. It also feels to me a bit like the way a non-native speaker of English might mimic "everyman" use of profanity he'd seen depicted in a movie.

Second, for someone who claims to value community and society you are not engaging in a constructive discussion or making any kind of argument. If you have any intelligence or education it is certainly not evident from your remarks. No disrespect if you are actually educated or intelligent, but my guess at this point is that you are a 10 year old kid trolling for laughs and trying to learn Ruby on Rails.

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Thanks for the feedback on my profanity.

It's not about offending people, it's about venting my feelings. I'm aware that I'm just yelling into a void. But venting is it's own reward.

Also I'm definitely not going to put any thought or work into a hacker news comment. Don't throw your pearls before swine and all that.

What HN never fails to offer up to me is libertarians such as yourself who indulge my rants and raves. So thank you. Like a 50 year old fat man showing his penis on ChatRoulette, your talking to me makes me feel like I have an audience.

I decided to humor you b/c such antisocial behavior is unusual on HN and I thought maybe you had a constructive argument (one that could possibly persuade someone) lurking behind the trolling.

Give HN a chance and please desist from deliberately polluting it.