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I think that you are focusing on "rudeness" too much.

This is the internet.

And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness-, and good engineering matters for hackers. (as it should) I think that this is the perfect medium for rudeness.

The whole reason people post their projects here is to get criticism of any kind. If one is disheartened because of a rude comment, one needs to grow up.

One needs to learn how to deal with comments; learn to decide on which ones to take seriously and which ones to not..

The good thing about the internet is that most of us are anonymous here. So you can not judge my comments based on my identity (or my history, e.g. what i have done). Nor you can punch me in the face for being rude or something. The thing you get in exchange is honesty (hopefully).

This is healthy. Let's embrace it, and keep politeness and politics for face-to-face meetings.



> And this is a (mainly) hacker community -who are not known for their politeness-

And you hold this up as an ideal rather than something we can improve upon? Tone matters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

If you want to act differently than in real life, this is not the site.


Good point.

I might be wrong.

I was trying to say that everybody needs to learn how to deal with rude people/comments.

This does not justify the bad tone nonetheless.




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