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Thank you for proving the point. Criticism must be punished, even when it's directly addressing raised questions. It is exactly these sorts of actions that crea

by tnone 9y ago

Thank you for proving the point. Criticism must be punished, even when it's directly addressing raised questions. It is exactly these sorts of actions that create the "hostile excitement" OP was complaining about. Cause and effect is a bitch. All you had to do was not treat the subject as sacred.

dang 9y ago
That's inaccurate. The problem is that people's passions about the hot generic things are so strong that they blast them into every remotely related context, obliterating the specifics that make a given post interesting. The term 'flamewar' expresses vividly how these dynamics consume everything in sight if allowed to. On HN we're trying not to let that happen.