It wouldn't be hacker news if there wasn't eventually a comment pointing out that there's always a comment pointing out <x>. It's fascinating to see this happe

It wouldn't be hacker news if there wasn't eventually a comment pointing out that there's always a comment pointing out <x>. It's fascinating to see this happen on both HN and Reddit, quite often even before 'comment pointing out <x>' is even posted. This phenomenon reminds me a bit of the annoying fallacy-fallacy, or how any discussion involving -isms (capitalism, socialism) cannot be had without either or both parties pre-emptively defending against being accused of, say, the no-true-scotsman fallacy. I've been wondering if this is a 'new' thing, or if we've always been having these increasingly meta conversations, or if perhaps I'm just getting old and tired of it.