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Comment by feld | Hacker News Reader

You are choosing to not use AT&T over holes in the walls of your dwelling required for installation. The free market is working as intended in this case.

Most people really don't have a choice. You're just being a prick.

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You can always safely leave out the personal jeers, like the guidelines ask.

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

It wasn't a personal jeer. I was commenting on his behavior/attitude, not calling him names. There's a big difference.

alternately:

    > You're just being (a prick | stubborn | bullheaded | rigid | perverse | unreasonable)

If there's a difference, it's one that doesn't bring the comment within the guidelines. They don't just ask us not to call people names, they ask us not to call names at all:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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

Alright let me replay this conversation:

Post:

> the free market is broken. I have a choice between two providers but one is a slight inconvenience for me to have installed so I refuse to use it.

> the free market is not broken.

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This evades the point. The point is that you can't post things like "You're just being a prick" to Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

I did not evade the point. You are choosing to to ignore it.

This comment is well within HN guidelines.

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