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I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on.

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I'll echo the dead commenter. The text is quite bitter, but nothing about seems "psychotic".

Good angle. I'm just projecting my own experiences. I feel that I have a lot in common with him.

Me too. Not sure why artifact_44's comment is dead so I vouched for it, I don't see what is gained by throwing around psychiatric terms, used pejoratively, for no good reason (could there be a good reason on HN? I doubt it but I don't see one here).

So I think it's wrong of the author to flame other people publicly. I really denounce that. I shouldn't have gone for the jugular, using a word for a real illness. I apologise for that. That was wrong. The reason I wrote that was to convey my feeling that the author is doing something bad, writing an unstructured misspelled text bullying people with allegations that are also not verifiable. I should have thought about what actually bothered me before I commented.

"Then,, KevinDS on DSLReports was just a incredible ass to me. It was epic. I believe he also lied to me in PM when i tried to get him to help. I was already unhappy with the future that I was looking at. He then just said nasty things. I was done. It would be a thankless battle I would wage on my own and I was unwilling because of people like him. So KevinDS take a bow. CableLabs loves you, Intel loves you, Arris loves you.. I was a huge thorn in thier side. The Badmodems.com site gets 700 uniqui IPs a day. 380,000 unique since the start. 16 million hits. So KevinDS, you pushed me enough at the right time to end all this. I will NOT spend the next 5 years in a new battle that is thankless and filled with people like you."

The content above doesn't belong on the front page, simply put. It's very negative, and I'm sorry that I just continued with the negativity.

Fair enough <thumbs up>

It's far easier for the lazy to dismiss based on tone rather than content. Crazy people are distressed (at least when we notice them), so distressed people are crazy. But hidden in PC language about concern, illness, and help, while pretending to be a psychologist.

You sure that taking a year off to troubleshoot a performance issue with a modem, for free, is wrong to call a bit psychotic?

To label a person or behavior psychotic requires a psychiatrist’s evaluation. It’s not good in general to dilute the meanings of established medical terms of art by throwing them around carelessly.

It reads exactly like a typical ranty tech forum post to me. I think us readers may exaggerate the effect if those same words are put to front-page HTML.

Yeah, for sure a bit unhinged. Maybe with reason though.

I disagree. That text doesn't sound psychotic to me.. bitter, yes.. but I think HN users are all too familiar with being passionate about an issue at the expense of personal time and other pursuits, and I respect that.

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