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		olalonde on April 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negati... Agreed. This really got on my nerves a few weeks ago and I couldn't resist going meta (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013259). There's even a Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

glaugh on April 3, 2015 [–]

Your posting of this a little while back has caused me to think to myself "Geez, 'Principle of charity' would be useful here" over and over and over since you originally posted that. Really useful name to put to a concept like that. So. Thanks!

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