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Can you please edit swipes and putdowns out of your HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine with just the last two paragraphs, which make your substantive point.

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Can't edit comments that old, but I feel like my first sentence was perfectly appropriate given the parents appeal to authority ("I built telecommunications systems / software for some time").

I wouldn't call that an appeal to authority? but even if it were, your comments need to follow the site guidelines regardless of what other commenters are doing. You broke them badly above.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You don't see how that's an appeal to authority, I don't see how my comment violated the site guidelines. I wasn't name-calling or swiping at anyone, I was merely refuting the parents appeal to authority.

If you tell me you don't see how "You've completely missed the mark" breaks the site guidelines, I guess I can see how that's borderline. But "you have no clue whatsoever"? That's a straightforward attack/swipe of exactly the sort you're asked not to post here!

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