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> class of people who think sounding like a dick makes them more authoritative

It's a writing style. Like it or hate it.

Nonetheless, criticisms of writing style are far too cheap and shallow for HN. Be better.

I disagree, I think it's a perfectly reasonable to critique someone's writing, and by extension the author.

You can't be rude and justify it by saying "it's just my management style" or "it's just my personality".

You did not actually prove how exactly launching criticisms of the writing style over the content is not cheap. You can hate and critique the writing style all you want, but focusing on that in your HN comments is in fact the very notion of cheap commentary.

So, would you like to try again? Are you intellectually capable of providing a proper retort?

> and by extension the author.

I love how idiots on HN are justifying blatant ad hominem attacks in their commentary as being perfectly valid.

WTF is HN becoming? Are people really getting this stupid?

If the "writing style" consists of calling a random woman, one who has no connection to the topic at hand, cheap and nasty names - then it's better that such drivel is not even submitted on HN. We are better than this.

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