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0 pointscrazygringo1d ago0 comments

You literally wrote:

> I've never had a "What's new" tab ever open because I disable the customized home page where that's displayed.

I'm not "denying your experience" of not having the what's new tab. I'm denying your explanation for it.

You wrongly thought it was due to disabling the home page, and then you were insulting to the parent with the snarky "I'm guessing you're not aware that's an option".

You were the one who wasn't aware of the real explanation. Now you make up a totally unwarranted accusations ("going out of your way to deny my exact experience", "gaslighting nonsense"), and add character assassination on top ("you're this eager to defend them?", "corporate defense squad members").

Your comment is extremely inappropriate. Please re-read the HN guidelines, especially:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

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themafia1d ago

> and then you were insulting to the parent with the snarky

And what did they say to me?

"I'm guessing you immediately close the What's New Chrome tab when you update?"

If that's not snarky then I don't know what is. It's rude, churlish, and presumptive. Yet you take absolutely no notice of this as if you didn't care to do anything other than attack me.

> You wrongly thought it was due to disabling the home page

And you are 100% certain it isn't? Why?

> Your comment is extremely inappropriate.

I think your definitions of "snarky" and "extremely" need to be adjusted. You've downvoted me, you disagree, I get that, what more do you want? You've persisted this conversation as if there is more to get from it but all you seem interested in is this off topic browbeating.

Instead of responding to the point, or engaging with it on any level, you've picked one small nit, and then attempted to derail the entire point with it. What /you/ are doing is inappropriate.

If it's so inappropriate then why did you reply? You can't have it both ways.

crazygringoOP21h ago

> And what did they say to me?

It doesn't matter. It's not a reason to be insulting back. I'm not insulting you here, even though you're insulting me.

> And you are 100% certain it isn't? Why?

I already explained. This is trivial to test. Another commenter here also provided the more likely explanation.

> If it's so inappropriate then why did you reply?

To let you know why, so you can learn from this. When people are insulting to me, I don't just ignore it so people can walk all over me. But I also don't insult back. I explain what they're doing so they can learn to have better manners.

It's not picking "one small nit", it's standing up to abusive language and behavior ("corporate defense squad members", "gaslighting nonsense"). Please be better in the future.

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