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Comment by archgrove | Hacker News Reader

It seems to really hate profanity. `I love it` is 1% toxic. `I bloody love it.` 38%; `I fking love it` 95%. In many circles, the more profane are more congratulatory.

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Even when used positively, hyperbolic words like profanity indicate a level of close-minded passion about one side or another of a discussion. The purpose of Perspective seems to be to foster rational discussion between open-minded individuals in a comment string. I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who moved a conversation in a non-toxic direction by typing "I bloody respect your opinion, but here's why assumption X is wrong."

The implicit assumption you are making is that a comment can contain only one thing. Something like the following would be both perfectly acceptable and moving the conversation in a good direction, IMO:

So fucking awesome.

By the way, how do you do X? Whenever I've tried I always run into problem Y. Also, I'm interested in your thoughts on Z.

The initial congratulatory statement used profanity for effect and to convey emotion, but in a positive way. The following statement(s) are specifically contributing to and flushing out the conversation. 85% toxic according to them (but helpfully it did allow me to correct them, so maybe they'll get better).

It looks more to me like it encourages non specificity, (questioning, uncertainty, or intellectual language)

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