Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Strong wording there, from you .. do you suppose that was a vicuous stabbing accusation, or a playful rejoiner questioning the zip V ZIP ambiguity? People do get a bit playful.
> nor did I expect anyone to reply to it barely 3 minutes later,
That is very much the intent of:
in: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> they accused sweetjuly ...
Strong wording there, from you .. do you suppose that was a vicuous stabbing accusation, or a playful rejoiner questioning the zip V ZIP ambiguity? People do get a bit playful.
> nor did I expect anyone to reply to it barely 3 minutes later,
There are a number of people, myself included, who watch https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments scroll by.
Not all the time, not obsessively, we overlap a lot and tend to catch and flag the worst of the worst .. bit like weeding the garden.