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Give me a break...an apology is wholly unnecessary. What you said may have been "inappropriate," but it was dark humor. Of course people would be offended.
I wholly agree. All it does is breed political correctness where there was none.
You are doing this because you don't want it to impact your business. Shame on you!!
There's nothing wrong with that.
Now I'm intrigued whether you'll regain the 83 karma points you lost in that thread with this post ;-) I think you might! That aside, the egregious downvoting of your comments in that post showed a real lack of HN voting standards (that is, not going crazily low unless the comment is spam or totally irrelevant) by many users, no matter how misguided your comments.
From a strictly theoretic standpoint, it seems the karma system rewards drama... and it also rewards posting controversial statements as separate articles rather than as comments, because articles can't get downmodded.
As interesting as the whole incident has been, I'm hoping we don't see many similar ones, since I don't think it really added much to the quality of discussion.
Coward. Your next submission should have been Maddox's "How to kill yourself like a man." http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicid...
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I think it's useful. It gave us a forum to discuss how Hacker News acts in regards to things like that, and that's a very important discussion to have.
If your dark humor doesn't offend people, you're doing it wrong. But you're right, this may show that HN overreacts .
Say interesting and insightful things, upmod others that do, and downmod others that don't.
I didn't see your comment until you posted this up. I agree: it was pretty immature and uncalled for. Since I've been part of Hacker News, though, you've almost always been smart, courteous, and you almost always add to the conversation rather than detract from it. And it's easy to go wrong and say something stupid, and at least you're owning up to it. I hope people don't hold a grudge against what you said, and I'm…
The reactions are typical US behavior. People will rate you because of the one thing you did wrong and not even take into account the years before, where you did a perfect job. (Think about President Clinton and the Lewinski affaire...).
You mix one drink, and nobody calls you a bartender.
But you fuck one sheep....