> Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This is like a poster child of that. Dang it[1], I strenuously disagree. I didn't post some 'g

> Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This is like a poster child of that. Dang it[1], I strenuously disagree. I didn't post some 'generic ideological tangent'; I just mentioned the first two things which leapt to mind as indicators that our industry is silly. I could have mentioned Adria Richards, Marco Ament or Jon Gruber, but those didn't come to mind first. My point — and I think it's a serious one — is that our industry takes itself far too, and undeservedly, seriously. Choosing to shut down a well-operating group over the misbehaviour of the host site's CEO (and it is serious misbehaviour: my opinion is that he should resign or be fired) is, IMHO, among those silly things done from a sense of inflated seriousness. [1] Couldn't resist the pun; I'm sure it's not original