Comment by endofreach | Hacker News Reader

Comment by endofreach | Hacker News Reader

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> but on the internet you don't have to say anything and if you do it may as well have some substance

Seems like we're using different internets. Which i am glad about. I just wish mine had less of the negativity that's coming over from yours. Guess in the end, the people on your internet realize, it's more fun over here.

You could have expressed all of that with less maliciousness towards the person. Thank god, in my internet everyone can say whatever they want f they want. Because– and more people should remember this apparently– if i don't like it, i just turn off the internet, like grandma!

Wish all the best to you and everyone you care about in real life. I might be just a bot. You might be. We'll never know for certain. Don't let some bits mess with your feels.

I'm sorry for for leaking negativity into your internet. I don't think negativity is inherently undesirable, but I don't think it's useful to express it towards people's selves. I meant only to criticize the comment without further implication.

In fact I went and got some references I really liked because I was hoping to add what I felt was missing from the discussion on entropy. My motivation in the end was to share my personal feeling of awe, and in a way that was accessible to the parent poster as well as other readers. How do you like that internet?

> My motivation in the end was to share my personal feeling of awe, and in a way that was accessible to the parent poster as well as other readers.

Then write it that way:

1. Remove the first paragraph, where you treat the OP like a child by telling them where it is and isn't appropriate to express their idea

2. Remove the first two sentences of the 2nd paragraph

3. Remove the clause "but you can't get that from a quip."

Now we've got the beginnings of a delicious comment! You could even garnish it at the beginning with something like "Not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but..." But you don't even really need it.

That's the difference between playing in a sandbox with others, and unwittingly kicking someone out of one.

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