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Full story here: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/12/blogs-are-godless-communist-bullshit.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/12/blogs-are-godless-c... Basically, he thinks that news sites like Reddit/HN/etc are doomed to become tabloids, since their author's incentives are all screwed up. The format of the post is a trick to both get on the front page of HN, and prove his point - that you're more interested in fighting and gossip than real information.