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Comment by tadfisher | Hacker News Reader

OK, so add in searches for bomb-making and forums that a terrorist would likely visit. Get lots of people to use your extension and generate lots of false positives.

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Again you fail. Those who will truly abuse this system will not be looking for true positives. They will be looking for excuses. Such a system would provide them with excuses aplenty to drag someone away and lock them up for a while, until they show the proper love and respect to the system.

I completely appreciate what you're saying here, and I think you're absolutely correct... However framing your insight with "Again you fail" makes me respect your opinion less. As someone who had a similar idea to the person you replied to, and as someone who comes to HN to have "smarter people in the room", it's this kind of condescension that keeps me from commenting on HN.

Sorry for the mini-rant, your three word comment doesn't really warrant it but hopefully you can respect why I took the time to type it.

I am not that long around at HN, but isn't that kind of comments unavoidable in the Internet?

Not in these parts. They've been creeping in, but incivility is still heavily downvoted here.

Voted up, but I think (hope) he meant it in the sense of "And even that is not enough."

Reading it again, you might have it right... in which case I feel bad for offering up criticism when it is surely better deserved elsewhere.

Yes, sorry - I did not mean it in a derogatory sense, more like "Even with these changes the idea won't work". In hindsight, a far too aggressive way to state it, mea culpa!

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