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I'm torn, there's literally a link to Johnny Lee's work in the article. So your comment doesn't add anything. But a lot of people read only the comments (or th
by Lewton 9y ago
I'm torn, there's literally a link to Johnny Lee's work in the article. So your comment doesn't add anything.
But a lot of people read only the comments (or the comments before the article) so your comment does add value
Is it a good HN comment or not? :D
- bringtheaction 9y agoIt’s an acceptable kind of HN comment. A link in the article is generally easy to miss and probably others missed it too. Admittedly the article did talk enough about the other thing that it’d be pretty hard to miss if you read the whole thing, but I think we can forgive it still. Perhaps the parent to your comment opened the page and saw the video but didn’t bother to read the article. I think that’s fine too. I always read comments first and in fact quite often I read the comments only. As long as we don’t derail the discussion completely by starting a top-level comment about how we perceive something based on the title alone I think it’s fine. That includes it being fine to mention things that you are reminded of by the title as long as you phrase it correctly. In my opinion of course.
- hungerstrike 9y agoYour own comment is so self-important that I stopped thinking about the article at all and moved onto thinking about how much I despise people. So your comment adds less than nothing IMO.
- Lewton 9y agoAgreed that my comment has little to no value But I was genuinely curious how other people felt :)
- ChrisRR 9y agoOops! I admit I skimmed the text and looked at the pretty pictures.