I am not calling out the need for the request but pedantically suggesting there is a nice to ask someone to be nice and ‘be nice’ isn’t it.

I disagree. Without at least a “please” in there it cannot be considered nice.

Can you provide a context in which it is?

Telling people to “be nice” isn’t being nice.

It happens in the comments of places such as this very site. Often for the lulz, occasionally mental illness.

From there it repeats the pattern but with gullible added to the mix.

Quiet unionizing?

I’m not saying anyone should murder this guy or other politic figures like him but if a mob of people did, I can’t imagine being upset. They can’t ignore mob violence and not expect it to bounce back in them.

Google’s death spiral will take a while but it’s clearly circle the drain.

It will likely never completely die the same way IBM never died but it will stop being the desired placed for new graduates.

Excellent counter example to anyone claiming that we need patent and copyright to innovate.

This man made nothing on his invention and was not motivated by money but fame.

There are endless of examples of how those who do things for money hold back the creativity that leads to innovation. This is one of them. It almost didn’t happen because his pursuit was not seen as profitable.