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Re-reading your comment, you did ask why they were so popular. Must have mis-read that at the time - sorry. I was a little twitchy, as I'm tired of seeing "why

Re-reading your comment, you did ask why they were so popular. Must have mis-read that at the time - sorry. I was a little twitchy, as I'm tired of seeing "why has this been posted" style comments. As I said in one of my other comments though, I think there is a large proportion of Apple fans here on HN, who are genuinely interested. Most of those are probably subscribed by RSS anyway, but are curious as to what other HNers think. I'm smart enough to not try talking Apple to the majority of people I know IRL, and I'm not quite brave(?) enough to browse the apple-specific discussion forums. They tend to be filled with too many fanboys and haters, whereas HN tends to be a little more something-inbetween. edit: fixed minor typo

buster 16y ago
yes, correct.. Here is how i think of it: For me HN is still one of the best pages to look for news, and everytime one of those fanboy/flamewar topics makes it to the frontpage, another interesting topic doesn't make it. I would have thought people are mature enough not to upvote those random subjective blogs, it's just not objective enough to be news for me, that's why i don't like them. I can live with the smartphone market share news, because they tend to be based on some companies numbers... Anyway, i guess this will be downvoted again, whatever.. i'll just shut up and try to ignore daringfireball links.