viciousness

Being wrong is not a crime on Hacker News; trolling and viciousness are.

But I've been really surprised at the viciousness here. There's often a mean comment or two in a thread, and half of the time, I'm the one making it.

I can see your point, but the sheer viciousness of the attacks in this case is beyond the pale. I've seen 4chan trolling before, but this is a very different beast.

It is absolutely incredible, the kind of viciousness some people will direct at those they claim to once have loved.

Because of the viciousness of the suspect, it was decided that the terms would run consecutively. You have just heard "DragNet," a series of authentic cases from official files.

The former maybe a personal view, but the latter is just outright viciousness. He has the right to believe whatever he wants, but nobody should be expected to work for this asshole, or want to have anything to do with him.

"Bitch" implies malice and viciousness, shallow in thought but deeply ingrained. And, of course, it implies unwomanliness, and it doesn't make sense to accuse a man of unwomanliness.

I'd have to agree, but Samsung's flavor of astroturfing is pretty gentle and benign compared to the viciousness of microsoft' attack dogs.

Realizing the world is built on competition is not what breeds viciousness... it is what lets us successfully build the secondary layer on top that shields us from it.

In the places where it's most prevalent you do tend to see clannish behavior and indifference/viciousness to the out-group. Dunno if it's really true, but it does seem to fit various historical developments.

It sounds like he's sad that HN isn't a haven from this viciousness like it once was. And just because he's sad that this one community has deteriorated, that doesn't mean he's not capable of handling the slings and arrows of the wider Internet population.

After all, the sheer viciousness of the attacks only serves to prove that misogyny is alive and well, and most importantly, damaging. Bringing inconvenient truths to light goes to the very heart of journalism.

I could certainly agree that the Stasi is much worse than the UK government, so maybe you could draw a line between a certain level of viciousness of the security state, past which document-theft becomes justified. But I don't see how you could make a blanket statement that it's never justified.

And I never said that competition breeds viciousness, but if you want to argue that point, I'll take the position that your secondary layer has not eliminated it. The first step to figuring out if you've identified a problem properly is to figure out whether you are soaking in it.

By contrast, leopards and jaguars will kill you out of sheer viciousness, bears will attack you if they feel threatened, and polar bears will attack you because they are hungry and you are made of meat. The main danger with tigers and lions is that they don't really understand how fragile humans are, so they might accidentally kill or maim you, which happened to Roy.

I saw lots of email from Erik whose viciousness went far above and beyond anything I've ever seen from Linus. And Erik was extremely unsuccessful at organizing collaborative efforts; Lisp languished for over a decade under his dominance.

Removing some anonymity probably removed some viciousness in turn. Flip side: for some bizarre reason, now we see the comments of just about everyone who shares a video on Youtube and all their friends who comment. Small to medium amounts of viciousness have been replaced with an immense void of vacuousness.

This incredible sequence could go on for years while his crimes increased in frequency and viciousness, with no punishment whatever save rare dull-but-comfortable confinements. Then suddenly, usually by law on his eighteenth birthday, this so-called 'juvenile delinquent' becomes an adult criminal -- and sometimes wound up in only weeks or months in a death cell awaiting execution for murder."

I'm partly joking, of course, but you'd be surprised at the epithets and viciousness that can be thrown around if someone dares disturb the very, very classist segments of the population who participate mostly loudly in municipal governments.