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As right as you may perceive yourself to be, complaints are less substantive than the original comment is.

• lmm 9y ago
  If you really believe that, then your own comment is even less substantive than mine. The meta-discussion has some substance to it IMO; it conveys at least some information and might suggest some actions to take. The original comment has literally none. (Meta-discussion is marginally poisonous to productive discourse, and on an ideal HN this whole thread would be downvoted, but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat)
  • castis 9y ago
    > but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat If your ideals can be so easily threatened then perhaps one-liners are not the problem.
    • lmm 9y ago
      Above-average discourse is fragile almost by definition - mean-reversion is a real thing.