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"Anyone with "software engineer", "developer", or "programmer" in their job title should be given full benefit of the doubt"

No one gets the benefit of the doubt, and certainly not programmers. You get more leeway with what we'll allow, but not free reign. Most programmers aren't HN level.

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> Most programmers aren't HN level

Oh boy, the self importance here is hilarious

It’s one of the defining cultural cornerstones here.

I'm not a programmer at all, my yearly code output these days can be expressed in double digit hours, and very small ones. I assure you, I do not think of myself as a programmer much less a top tier one.

Ah, yes; because there's a programming skill test we all had to pass to be allowed to post here...

Yeah, I get it, it’s easy to poke at that phrasing.

There’s also a reading of that response where they mean “HN level” like “as confident as the replied-to comment author”. Could even be a bit sarcastic.

I wasn't being sarcastic, but with me it was a good guess. :D

No, but there is a curiosity test, you have to find the place; and then once you're here you have to understand things in order to find value and come back.

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