[cogogo]

Why is this is downvoted? What is the difference between the anger being expressed here and the anger of the original email recipient? Do I need to revisit the community guidelines? I assume this is the first time this person has seen the Rob Pike post.

[baobun]

Theory: Some people believe that saying "fuck you" is taboo and in itself outrageous and significant.

Hence upvoting the OP ("What has robpike come to? :shriek:") and downvoting GP.

[minimaxir]

Upvotes/downvote behavior makes zero sense on heated topics, it's better to not think about it.

[throw20251220]

People mostly downvote here with emotion, not the reason.

[exasperaited]

I am unconcerned about it being downvoted. If it makes people defensive enough to downvote it, it did its job, and maybe through attrition it, with other people’s disgusted rage, will contribute to educating the sociopathic Valley tech industry that things are going badly wrong.

One more seemingly futile fist punched at the wall that traps us in the world that unfettered tech industry greed has made for us. Might take millions of us to make an impression but we will.

FWIW I am British and “fuck all of these people” is something you might expect even the most balanced, refined British person to say, because we’re less afraid of language or the poetry of some of our older, more colourful words, and because there is no more elegantly robust way to put it.