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photogrammetry | 9 years ago

Do you really disagree with brokenmachine's premise that poor English makes communication impossible?

Or is it, rather, that Sam and YC {and venture capital in general}, by proxy through you, are annoyed at decreasing access to low-wage workers from a developing country notorious for unintelligible accents?

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dang|9 years ago

Pretty sure I have no low-wage worker agenda, but perhaps you see the dark corners of my soul.

From a moderation point of view, it's not a question of disagreeing. We can agree with someone and still ask them to stop. In fact that's common. In this case it was about asking people not to go on offtopically about peeves, because that's not interesting, and also about HN being an international community. Respect across national divides is important here.