> Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell.
The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real person and try your best to reel back these sorts of accusations, which are nearly always wrong, and nearly always driven by differences of background and (therefore) opinion.
The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real person and try your best to reel back these sorts of accusations, which are nearly always wrong, and nearly always driven by differences of background and (therefore) opinion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm rushing out the door just now but here are a couple of past explanations about this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851 (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948722 (Oct 2024)
(as well as https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... of course)