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I get suspicious whenever someone uses that image to preface a response. It serves no purpose in a debate, and just makes the author seem smug.

edit: since the parent deleted his response, I am referring to the xkcd image that is currently at the top of the blogpost.



Hi, author here. I didn't see the comment that was deleted that you responded to (it wasn't me). I guess I just slapped it up there because it captured the moment of how I felt when I read the post I was responding to. Did not mean to come off as smug, I just thought that it was funny that reading something on the internets got me feeling so strongly that I wanted to respond to it.

Update: decided to just remove the XKCD comic


It just reminds me of watching two people bickering at each other in comment threads, justifying themselves with that comic. Plus it I think it is overused.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22someone+...

The now-deleted parent comment wasn't complaining, he just said you didn't cite the source as xkcd.


ha, I guess that comic is pretty popular, and I was totally being not-original. XKCD provides a link specific for hotlinking to all their comics, and I just used that link that was officially provided.


I think it's an admission and warning that you might be ranty, and there's probably not a good-enough reason for it.




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