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by teraflop 4213 days ago
Speaking only for myself, while I have no significant beef with Docker, I've found the general tone of your comments to be slightly off-putting. If others feel the same way, that might explain the downvotes.

I think it boils down to the tension between HN as a place for uninvolved commenters to discuss articles, and as a place for the subjects of those articles to engage in that discussion. Not to slight your intentions, but a comment like "I will work it out right here with you." comes across as an attempt to wrest control of the conversational dynamic, not to mention a little confrontational. For better or for worse, that's something that doesn't really fly when you have an obvious vested interest.

This is not meant as criticism, just food for thought that might help explain the frosty reception you've been getting around here.
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teekert 4213 days ago
"slightly off-putting" Argh, we are in a forum, this is communication deprived of non-verbal cues. Just focus on the intent and the information. I think shykes deserves more than judging of his tone. I also think it is cool he is hanging out here managing (mis)information. Are you all jealous or something? You have the chance to ask anything you want to someone who is the driving force behind a project of which the implications are hard to overestimate. And you find his tone off-putting.

I'm just a biologist but if any of the big names in my field (say, Hans Clevers, is that a stretch?) would be approachable on a forum, man that would great!!

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hyperliner 4213 days ago
I read it differently. I read it as: "it seems you have a key issue but I disagree with you. However, if you clarify your issue I will stay here and discuss it in the open right now."
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smt88 4213 days ago
Same here. I perceived it as very friendly and helpful.
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coldtea 4213 days ago
>comes across as an attempt to wrest control of the conversational dynamic

And why shouldn't he do that? He's the one who sweated his ass to create the program, the other guy is just some random user who got it for free (and open source) and complains for something.

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