Seriously, what is it about this that is so hard to understand? I mean it was right there in the grandparent:
About the same as the what you could write in comments already but prettier.
You can insult people if you want. You can use text. You can insult people using using ad hoc polls with karma sinks that we’ve been making do with for years. You can insult people in comments and happen to use the new poll markdown syntax. You can even insult people with the markdown image feature that we’ve always had:
Either way the rules are the same: You can get away with insulting people to the extent that you can do so subtly, choose targets wisely and be well in tune with social dynamics.
We’ve covered this.
Seriously, what is it about this that is so hard to understand? I mean it was right there in the grandparent:
You can insult people if you want. You can use text. You can insult people using using ad hoc polls with karma sinks that we’ve been making do with for years. You can insult people in comments and happen to use the new poll markdown syntax. You can even insult people with the markdown image feature that we’ve always had:
Either way the rules are the same: You can get away with insulting people to the extent that you can do so subtly, choose targets wisely and be well in tune with social dynamics.