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You may be "calm now", but nobody wants to read this. And at this exact moment there is a perfect comment directly above this at the top of the thread. Not on

You may be "calm now", but nobody wants to read this. And at this exact moment there is a perfect comment directly above this at the top of the thread. Not only are you, and those like you, not the center of the universe, nobody wants to spend their time sifting through these comments on public boards. I know I'm screaming into the hurricane here, but if you were both entitled enough to post this and also self aware enough to know that its a self-serving rant maybe, just maybe, think before you start mashing keys.

watty 10y ago
To be honest I think your post is more distracting than the one you're replying to (and likely mine more than yours). Complaining about lack of stock is a fair comment and I don't mind reading it. It also creates conversation about where to find it for cheap, why it's limited, etc. (as seen by the replies).
- dtornabene 10y ago
  Maybe? I guess thats a fair response. I just had a pretty allergic reaction to <rant> and what came off as really, just whining, especially since as I pointed out, the comment directly above it (for me, at the time of posting) was an almost word for word rebuttal of the attitude of op. Maybe I just need a break from this site, getting to the point where logging in to see people complaining, constantly is weighing me down. Thanks for the comment.
blkhawk 10y ago
I was merely giving voice to the annoyance anyone would feel when hearing about the Pi Zero for the first time trying to buy it only to discover that whoever had it in stock only sold it bundled with a lot of stuff you don't want. I overplayed it a bit for humorous effect. My comment caused quite a few follow up comments from people who had probably similar feelings checking out the Pi Zero so I don't think I entirely missed the mark here.
dang 10y ago
As far as the subgenres of rants go, that one wasn't so bad. The frustrated love was closer to the surface than it usually is, the author showed some awareness of ranting, and the comment contained some substantive stuff ("I solder..."). I appreciate how frustrating ranty comments can be, especially when they rank higher than they deserve—which is nearly invariably, as steaming indignation always gets lots of upvotes owing to some bug in human firmware. But it would have been better not to take the thread in a personal direction. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 and marked it off-topic.

watty 10y ago

To be honest I think your post is more distracting than the one you're replying to (and likely mine more than yours). Complaining about lack of stock is a fair comment and I don't mind reading it. It also creates conversation about where to find it for cheap, why it's limited, etc. (as seen by the replies).

dtornabene 10y ago
Maybe? I guess thats a fair response. I just had a pretty allergic reaction to <rant> and what came off as really, just whining, especially since as I pointed out, the comment directly above it (for me, at the time of posting) was an almost word for word rebuttal of the attitude of op. Maybe I just need a break from this site, getting to the point where logging in to see people complaining, constantly is weighing me down. Thanks for the comment.

blkhawk 10y ago

I was merely giving voice to the annoyance anyone would feel when hearing about the Pi Zero for the first time trying to buy it only to discover that whoever had it in stock only sold it bundled with a lot of stuff you don't want. I overplayed it a bit for humorous effect. My comment caused quite a few follow up comments from people who had probably similar feelings checking out the Pi Zero so I don't think I entirely missed the mark here.

dang 10y ago

As far as the subgenres of rants go, that one wasn't so bad. The frustrated love was closer to the surface than it usually is, the author showed some awareness of ranting, and the comment contained some substantive stuff ("I solder..."). I appreciate how frustrating ranty comments can be, especially when they rank higher than they deserve—which is nearly invariably, as steaming indignation always gets lots of upvotes owing to some bug in human firmware. But it would have been better not to take the thread in a personal direction. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752546 and marked it off-topic.