I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being.

Splitting hairs? Maybe but I understand where the OP is coming from. Here's the 8 times (7 because one of them is the post we are discussing)

What a crazy thing to be doing, the mad situations companies get themselves into when they should just have networked cameras and VPNs or at the very least distributed ingress machines!

Its been getting crazy expensive for decent GPUs for a while for gaming and I can't see the next generation doing anything but being much higher due to the AI boom.

Makes you wonder how it is that power from the grid is so ludicrously above its actual capitol cost of production, the systems getting that power to places must be crazy expensive.

I sure hope it turns around at some point and it doesn't become C-AIDS, but it explains why Flu and RSV and sepsis et el are going crazy at the moment, immune systems are in bad shape.

It is no more crazy than telling them to diet given that is shown not to actually work.

People do some crazy things with Spring and interface injections in Java and it can get really Opaque quickly but also often it really is just 1 class implementing an interface and there are no tests using the interface at all.

There is a bug in the update process that can cause the phone to slow and drain battery like crazy.

So maybe it is that serious for a user with a 9 year history that used the term not once in the manner he is advocating against.

> I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being. Splitting hairs? Maybe but I understand where the OP is coming from. Here's the 8 times (7 because one of them is the post we are discussing)

You're giving them too much credit. Take a look at the usages in the article they linked: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/739643765/why-people-are-argu...

They're identical to their own usage of the word.

Further, they do use terms like "mad man maniac" to describe a person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12458323

All of this tells me that this probably isn't actually an important issue to them. Such comments are noise and we should ensure that they're unwelcome here.

17* year history on this site, but the earliest use of "crazy" in a comment was from 9 years ago.