Who's overreacting? I think my reaction was very proportional.
Humor doesn't always translate well to text, so I simply wanted a clarification. It's bad manner to accuse someone of being a coke-head in public without any clear indication that it's a joke, whoever that person is (you, me, Elon Musk).
We can think all we want that nobody should care, but we have to live with the world as it is (until we can change it, anyway), and there are many evo. psych. reasons why people care about that kind of stuff.
Well I did understand that he was making a joke, but I'd rather we kept jokes like that away from HackerNews as long as we possibly can, until we turn into yet another Reddit or Digg.
Humor doesn't always translate well to text, so I simply wanted a clarification. It's bad manner to accuse someone of being a coke-head in public without any clear indication that it's a joke, whoever that person is (you, me, Elon Musk).
We can think all we want that nobody should care, but we have to live with the world as it is (until we can change it, anyway), and there are many evo. psych. reasons why people care about that kind of stuff.