Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. We ban accounts that do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It doesn't sound as bad to me as I guess it does to you. There's a lot of variability in how words sound to people, especially across geographical ranges.

I use the word 'jerk' when one user is being rude to another in a gratuitous-supercilious way, which is not quite the same thing as 'personal attack' although they obviously overlap.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I've used the word 'asshole' for more severe cases, usually when there's a repeated pattern of it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Of course it's an old joke but that's not the point.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html