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It was a legitimate question. I truly don't understand how anyone can imagine property crime as "not scary". I was trying to get a better understanding of the person so that I would not be rude if he actually was neurodivergent.

It's extraordinarily hard to differentiate between trolls and non-trolls online anymore so I don't see what's wrong with asking that of someone.



What's wrong is that, whether you intended it to or not, it is inevitably going to land as a personal attack.

If you want additional explanation, here are links to lots of it - not in the most convenient format to read, but it covers the essentials:

the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate their intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

we have to moderate by likely effects, not by intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

internet psychiatric diagnosis is best avoided - https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...




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