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Your comments come across as more aggressive than perhaps you intend them to. We've had to ask you similar things before.

Telling someone that their spending is "fucking egregious" and "who knows what else you didn't mention", would land with most people as quite a provocation. The fact that cj replied courteously says something good about cj, but your comment broke the site guidelines and we need you not to do that.

It's easy to underestimate the amount of provocation in one's own comments—we all do that to some extent. I don't know if it's helpful or not but here are a bunch of past attempts I've made to explain this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...



You're right. I was being a dick.


I wouldn't put it that way but I respect and appreciate the reply.




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