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Oh my god, calm down. Jesus christ.

Same thing applies here: I'm not the one the one that's not calm. I very calmly pointed out that op is wrong. That's it. You painting that as "not calm" is the only abnormal thing going on here.

You can interpret text as being uncalm, but there's always room for misunderstanding, esp in a forum/thread. Nobody is actually upset I think, just using direct language.

Calm or not, when you called their behavior "humorously arrogant" it set the tone of the rest of your comment to condescension. It distracts from the on-topic discussion, despite any informative value contained in your comment.

When people post like this it's hard to tell if they are trying to have a conversation in good faith, or they are seeking pleasure in the form of belittling someone.

> "humorously arrogant" it set the tone of the rest of your comment to condescension

it was as condescending as the original comment was arrogant. what exactly is the confusion here? if you want to a community where people are allowed to make bold claims without doing sufficient research (hn) then you should also allow for those people to treated as such.

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