You're the one who brought up "allow", so I can't say what you mean by it. What I mean is that I'm disinclined to let your dickishness go by unchallenged.
Your "OMG hypocrisy" routine is cheap and lazy rhetoric. I'm not saying a negative tone is universally bad. I'm saying that replying dickishly to a positive novice contribution harms the dialog by reducing future novice contributions. Whereas I think negative tone in reply to a dickish comment can help the dialog by reducing future frequency of dickish replies.
If you don't like being irritated by people calling you out to being a dick to noobs, maybe you could try stopping being a dick to noobs. Then we can all be less irritated.
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You're the one who brought up "allow", so I can't say what you mean by it. What I mean is that I'm disinclined to let your dickishness go by unchallenged.
Your "OMG hypocrisy" routine is cheap and lazy rhetoric. I'm not saying a negative tone is universally bad. I'm saying that replying dickishly to a positive novice contribution harms the dialog by reducing future novice contributions. Whereas I think negative tone in reply to a dickish comment can help the dialog by reducing future frequency of dickish replies.
If you don't like being irritated by people calling you out to being a dick to noobs, maybe you could try stopping being a dick to noobs. Then we can all be less irritated.