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Read first paragraph after “In comments” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html doesn’t matter if you agree, snark is not supported here.

On the other it’s fine if you agree with tptacek’s intent but you were more clear and civil with your point. Tptacek’s comment comes off as pretentious and insulting, and doesn’t promote good faith discussion.

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It's strange you're so familiar with the forum's norms and guidelines and would yet start a completely off-topic, pointless meta-subthread. Those are much worse than tptacek's fairly tame response. If you disagree with the comment, you can downvote or if you feel it's that terrible, you can flag it so it gets moderator attention. If those options aren't available yet for your account, you can just participate a little longer until they are.

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