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You can't personally attack people like this on HN. Prefixing rudeness with a fig leaf like "I don't want to be rude" doesn't help. You've done this kind of thing in other comments, too. Please take the HN guideline about not calling names in arguments to heart: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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He incorrectly accounted for another users greater success by calling the user lucky. In fact what the other user has is greater competency he could improve himself by learning from it instead of dismissing it as luck.

He called me a jackass I merely stated that he should improve his understanding.

It's hard to tell someone kindly that they are incorrect.

> It's hard to tell someone kindly that they are incorrect.

It's really not that hard, and it's a skill we all need to learn in order to comment here.

So how would you put the same thoughts more politely or is the mere expression of the idea implicitly too rude to be communicated here.

I would do two things: edit out any uncivil or needlessly personal language; and mention specifics rather than generics like "incompetency".

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