[erikpukinskis]

This comment is really bad. There's nothing constructive here. All you said is "that's not good enough". But you have no idea where OP is in their development as a writer.

Maybe this is where they're at, in which case publishing it is GREAT and getting a couple good responses on HN is great, because that actual feedback is going to help them improve as a writer more than just leaving a note in their draft folder. And the way you get good at writing, like with everything else, is putting your shitty stuff out there. No one is born shooting diamonds.

But your post is no better than silence. And it's probably worse than silence because you we're mean in the process

I suspect you gleefully think you're being constructive, which makes it OK that you're being mean, but I think you're doing the exact opposite, which is the worst kind of contribution.

[return0]

Sorry you don't like my post. I don't get how my post is "mean", i did not insult anyone other than offering my honest (but harsh) opinion. Your comment on the other hand is completely useless to both of us. Other than giving you a perverse feeling of self-rigteousness, what else does your comment offer?

(If you meant to offend/shame me, you failed at it)

[erikpukinskis]

I didn't mean to offend or shame you. If I was right and it was a kind of meanness then you'll hear it many more times throughout your life and you might some day decide it's a pattern you want to pay attention to. If I was wrong then you won't, and this comment will disappear into the wind and that will be that.