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Please don't comment uncivilly and complain about downvotes; the guidelines ask us not to do those things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm sorry, I looked back through my words, and didn't see any name calling. That's fine if you want to ban me. I'll go elsewhere. But, I think you're greatly confusing incivility and name-calling with honesty and pointedness. Am I really offending someone? really?

I want dang back. lol.

I tried to delete my account, but I don't know how. HN is a distraction anyway. I have a company to sell.

It's true that a phrase like "name calling" doesn't really communicate much—it's really just shorthand for a more complex model of how this community functions. I took a shot at trying to write a more detailed explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13412325.

It's actually tricky to articulate these things in detail, and takes a lot of time and energy that are usually in short supply, which is why we usually don't. Perhaps I should write a longer piece about it that we could link readers to in the future.

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