I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, as they're directly related to the OP and are in some cases interesting. You could certainly say that it's "not conclusive proo

I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, as they're directly related to the OP and are in some cases interesting. You could certainly say that it's "not conclusive proof" of anything. However, this isn't a crowdsourced thesis paper. It's a web forum discussion thread, about a topic with only a thin tangential connection to the forum's main subject matter (i.e. technology and tech entrepreneurship).