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This article is definitely useful for the HN community. ... </sarcasm>

• noarchy 11y ago
  I genuinely think it is useful to have articles like this on HN. We do have our share of pedants, and many with comments that do nothing but correct someone's grammar or spelling. I suppose a debate can be had over how useful any of that is. Is it worth shutting down or diverting a discussion due to things like grammar?
  • buckbova 11y ago
    > Is it worth shutting down or diverting a discussion due to things like grammar? I say absolutely not. If you can correct someone, then you must understand them.
  • russelluresti 11y ago
    Sure, every community has pedants, but HN is supposed to be for news that relates to startups, technology, and web/software development. There are a ton of other sites and communities where articles like this belong - reddit, digg, etc., HN just shouldn't be one of them. Would you post this article on a web-development-based subreddit? But hating "grammar nazis" is something everyone loves to do, and feeling mentally superior is something that the HN community loves to feel, so articles like this get up-votes while people who want to stay on-topic get down-votes. But, oh well, just another step towards the degradation of this community and its content. NBD.