[rezonant]

I find your surefooted statements about what hacker news is, will become, or ever was to be worth little seeing as you have only just become a part of this community.

Might I recommend leaving the snark at home and approaching your interactions here with good faith instead of acting like you're the authoritative arbiter of community interactions?

Welcome to Hacker News.

[john_strinlai]

>Might I recommend leaving the snark at home and approaching your interactions here with good faith

the highest irony, coming from someone who literally cross-examined me and then insulted me rather than engage with my comments at all! can you seriously not see how ridiculous that is?

somehow i am the one who needs to approach interactions in good faith?

lmao. no. you dont get good faith from me. if you want good faith, dont start your conversations with an interrogation and follow it with an insult.

[rezonant]

Your original post was written as if you were a long time community member here and had an investment in how the community works and yet were a brand new green account. Something you probably don't know if you haven't spent enough time here is that it is indeed quite common to use a green alt to post comments that you don't want associated with your main profile. It is so common and allowable in fact that most users doing so just call them throwawayXYZ, as in that exact pattern. So I'm used to seeing this.

But it didn't make sense why you would do that for this particular post, especially while seeming to assert some kind of authority and familiarity with the cultural norms of the HN community. So I asked you about it, not aiming to negate or reduce your point but rather to learn about why you would use an alt account.

Instead of simply replying that you were in fact new and this was not an alt, rather that you were a long time lurker and a first time poster, you jumped down my throat and the throats of everyone else involved in this thread, being toxic and abrasive in every way possible. Both of my posts here which you think are at odds with each other are in service of encouraging you to check yourself, because you are being unreasonable; not meant as an insult demanding you to clap back. "You must be great at parties" should prompt you to step back and think of what passers by would think of your behavior and demeanor, because I'm giving you a social hint that a lot of people will find that behavior off putting. That statement is not a prompt for you to grow more vitriolic and upset, and continue the behavior I'm trying to point out is not going to serve you well in a social space like this.