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I can understand people are annoyed by this, but do we really need 2/3ds of the comments here reiterating the same point? Someone already made it, upvote it or
by maaaats 8y ago
I can understand people are annoyed by this, but do we really need 2/3ds of the comments here reiterating the same point? Someone already made it, upvote it or skip the article for all I care, but I'd rather read a discussion about the piece than people's buttons not working.
- bobwaycott 8y agoI think it’s acceptable because the alternative is authors who make this exceedingly dumb and user-hostile choice would have to see the upvotes to recognize how much people hate this. Instead, if authors read a bunch of complaints about this happening with their work, perhaps they’ll learn not to do it because they’d rather read more interesting comments about their work. When 2/3 of the comments are complaining about how an author rendered user back buttons useless out of either carelessness or ignorance, I’d hope the author would pay attention.
- delecti 8y agoThe link is the topic of discussion. On a place like HN the article's technical aspects are as valid of topics as the article's content. Additionally the overwhelming majority of the posts I've seen on HN don't have threads like this, so it's not like it's an epidemic. It only pops up for links that are doing something dumb.