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Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I fail to see how this is a personal attack. I was basically saying I don’t understand why people always have to post these ostensibly on-topic, actually off-topic humble brags (?). Where’s the attack? “You know perfectly well”? People have really thin skins these days if that counts as an attack. I see multiple more aggressive comments in this very comment tree (e.g. “it's an ignorant and arrogant take”) and IMO eve…
You're a great HN user and commenter and your contributions are much appreciated! I don't want to come across like a bag of bricks but if you would use this feedback to fine-tune a bit, that would be appreciated.
(You may be right that other commenters were breaking the guidelines worse, but we just don't come close to seeing everything, and a lot of what we do see happens by random access.)