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Comment by Quinzel | Hacker News Reader

I actually hadn’t noticed that HN is dorky/abusive.

You haven't noticed... I guess you aren't taking a stand in your comments and getting people trying to rhetorically gut punch you in return, in the sense of instantly dismissing whatever experience you may have or ignoring the thrust of your argument and siezing upon a small thing and acting as if that's the only thing you said?

See what happens when you go against the cultural grain around here, man.

Or maybe I'm the only one experiencing it... But it's not all the time, or else I would stop commenting altogether.

(FWIW, the challenge you just made is reasonable and not any sort of abuse.)

Well, I guess I see people assert their beliefs as though they are an authority on any given topic on here for sure and any comment that challenges their belief is seen as an insult, or a threat to someone else’s position of authority or their expertise. It’s all relative though I don’t mind if people disagree with me or challenge my assumptions or whatever, sometimes people can be rude about it, that says more about them than the person they are being rude/abusive to.

Where else can you find people disagreeing with each other starting their post with "False."?

Or the use of words like disingenuous or orthogonal? I mean I keep coming back, but there is a distinctive 'flavor' of discourse (for lack of a better word) here.

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