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Comment by tomohelix | Hacker News Reader

True. Perhaps I should have been more generous in interpreting intentions. Difficult change my habit though when there are accounts whose posts are completely dedicated to defending China's actions, even in egregious matters like Hong Kong and Tibet.

I tried giving them benefits of the doubt before, it never went anywhere. Maybe here it is different. I guess I can try again.

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Anyone can click on the profile and see this is a pseudonym account made 70 days ago.

Anyone can also check my account's been around since 2014 and links to my personal blog, twitter, etc.

So it's clear to most readers what the relative likelihood of attempted trolling is.

I will take the charitable view that there's real person behind the account who didn't bother to check before writing.

You are free to use your real name and connect your real life to social media. I don't and have no need to. You are also free to check every post history of everyone you interact with. I don't have that amount of time. And I am free to call out a bad argument when I see one. If you had practiced the checking post history properly, you would have noticed that account age and karma rarely correlate to anything.

You are also free to respond to the other comment I made to your post and not jumping to another one. These remarks are not specifically for you. Go take a look at the account I replied to above yours to see why I said that.

This seems incoherent. If you have a point to make, write it down in a way readers can understand, else given the bizarre prior comment, it only increases the perception of bizarreness.

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