Hey, just want you to know that you're right, I was being an ass.

You do a great job at keeping this place worth coming to.

Hey man. You have more influence and power here than the person you are replying to. Maybe use it to set the tone you want cultivated?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763836

You're at least partly right and may be quite right, but I did choose that word consciously. The difference between what I wrote here and the moderation boilerplate I traditionally post (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) is that I used a word with a bit more energy in it. I did that because I feel like the culture here might be ready to take a step further toward recognizing that sort of comment as what we're trying to avoid (because it gets in the way of what we are trying for). Also, I was careful to use a word that is only about the content and in no way personal.