[tptacek]

Wow. What a terrible way to respond. First, opening with "fuck you" and calling another commenter an asshole is uncivil and drags the site down. Second, the insults you chose to hurl at the commenter are empty and boring; they're written solely for your benefit and not for any reader, including the commenter you're replying to. And if you're upset about the commenter's threat to call the health inspector, howling insults at them is (a) unlikely to change their mind and (b) certainly going to make this thread more memorable, lessening the chance that they'd simply forget to make good on the threat.

[samstave]

Dude,

Threatening someone on HN with "if you fail to do X Ill call and report you by Y date" deserves my response.

I stand by that comment. Your comment is written solely to make your self look so much "better" than me, is it not.

Get off your high-horse Patrick.

[tptacek]

I'm just not sure what you're trying to accomplish. I read both your comments and those of the commenter you're replying to, regularly. Confidently: he doesn't care what you think.

[samstave]

So, I am NOT supposed to be concerned with what he thinks of my comment - yet I am supposed to be sensitive to your qualms with the term "fuck you"?

Patrick, either you are on the side of me being able to voice my opinion, or you are in favor of me censoring it due to your, or some poster's, concern for sentiment.

I am concluded that you're more in favor of me being censored when you can have your apologist worldview unoffended and you can continue to feel morally high.

Look, we have never agreed on HN, I feel you are an apologist and you may feel I'm an extremist; but let me tell you one thing I am not: one who censors the opinions of others - I am one who engages another in my beliefs.

Why don't you take a stress pill, sit down calmly and think things over...

[tptacek]

My name isn't Patrick.

[samstave]

hahaha

You are correct! My apologies - I have no idea why I typed that so many times, Bill.

[wglb]

Bill here. I agree that the expletive you used here is not appropriate.