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

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

>>garret+(OP)
My statement was neither something I wouldn't say face-to-face, nor gratuitously negative.

>>vezzy-+V
It comes off as unpalatable, to say the least. You were assuming malice in the other poster and then went on a minor tirade without sufficient prompting.

>>garret+(OP)
The comment being replied to was also rather uncivil by a certain definition, assuming the commenter was unfamiliar with what is by now very cliched literature and explaining it in a somewhat condescending tone, as if to a child, when in truth there was a very substantive point being made.