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pagingdraltman

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About pagingdraltman

Just a throwaway to point out that dang and sam altman are completely and totally okay with conversation destroying, community-eroding rudeness, so long as that rudeness is in a form other than profanity.

I'm hoping they will change their ways... but if they won't, I'm hoping they'll change the posting guidelines to read more honestly, that it is fine to be awful, to be passive-aggressive, to be a shitty asshole who tries to win every conversation, to be petty and vindictive and a dick... so long as you don't use profanity while you're busy ruining HN

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9802259

    No. You are wrong on so many levels: 1) the comment I responded to was a broad-based insult lobbed at anybody who believed that malaria research is more important than Uber. Callin…

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    Comment #9802242

    That's my point. HN is now filled with passive-aggressive assholes baiting each other. Hell, just read what you wrote to me and convince yourself that you're something other than a…

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    Comment #9801929

    It lobbed nasty insults at every single human who thinks that curing malaria is more important than Uber. I get that in the context of HN it's not the worst thing ever, but if that…

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    Comment #9801825

    Hey @dang and @altman: if you two are remotely serious about trying to make HN a decent place, then you need to ban this shit and ensure that anybody who upvoted it can never vote …