Imagine you're in a public place and some stranger is following you around and replying to your comments constantly day in and day out. It's annoying and creepy af.
I can't order you to back off. But imagine this. You are approaching me every day in a public place and I turn and face you and I tell you to back off. This is the level of threat you are inciting. Your presence is not welcome and the environment is now extremely hostile. I can't call the police on you in a forum but if this were a public place it would be justified.
I am telling you to back off. It's your choice whether you do so, but I ask you to check your actions and really think about what you are starting here.
I find it highly unlikely that you are just coincidentally encountering me all the time out of nowhere. I'm dead serious. I don't like you, I don't care for your comments, back off.
I am not deliberately following you on HN. I find you mostly on threads about computer languages; I visit a number of other topics, whenever I find them interesting.
I am not trying to harass you or stalk you. But I'm going to keep reading what interests me. If I see what you wrote and I think it's wrong, I'm going to reply. If that upsets you, I'm sorry that you're upset, but I do not consider that reason for me to change what I read or who I reply to.
The one thing I can offer is that I will try to be careful not to over-react when I reply to you. I'll try to be careful to be moderate in my words.
> I can't call the police on you in a forum but if this were a public place it would be justified.
Even here, you can email dang if you think I'm seriously out of line. Feel free to do so if you think it's justified. I'm completely serious. If I actually am at fault, I easily may fail to see it in myself. If dang thinks that it warrants telling me to back off, I will take that very seriously.
I'll tentatively believe you for now that you aren't stalking me. But you are borderline creeping me the hell out.
>If dang thinks that it warrants telling me to back off, I will take that very seriously.
Are you serious? The person that is feeling harassed is telling you to back off and you are getting in his face and saying let dang decide? I don't think you're serious if you are actually inviting me to escalate this issue. If you reply to any one of my other posts I definitely will request his aid to moderate. BACK OFF.
I can't order you to back off. But imagine this. You are approaching me every day in a public place and I turn and face you and I tell you to back off. This is the level of threat you are inciting. Your presence is not welcome and the environment is now extremely hostile. I can't call the police on you in a forum but if this were a public place it would be justified.
I am telling you to back off. It's your choice whether you do so, but I ask you to check your actions and really think about what you are starting here.
I find it highly unlikely that you are just coincidentally encountering me all the time out of nowhere. I'm dead serious. I don't like you, I don't care for your comments, back off.