> I find the seemingly obligatory condemnation of him to be tiresome too. It is indeed totally boring. In fact this whole thread that happens every time anyon

> I find the seemingly obligatory condemnation of him to be tiresome too. It is indeed totally boring. In fact this whole thread that happens every time anyone posts anything by Wolfram is very dull. I would say that I do get some value from seeing a rough inappropriate sales pitch : interesting information ratio on posts (not just Wolframs), and it is one of the reasons I frequently visit the comments before going to the page. HN can be susceptible to front page links that have poor ratios. Still, I'm not sure how we can get that benefit without these terminally dull threads of condemnation and counter condemnation. Really I'd just like a bot to figure out the ratio and display it next to the link. Sounds like a hard problem.