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on hackernews the top voted comment is always either * pedantic quibble with title * criticism of style of website on mobile it makes this kind of a silly pla
by gameswithgo 7y ago
on hackernews the top voted comment is always either
* pedantic quibble with title
* criticism of style of website on mobile
it makes this kind of a silly place.
- _jal 7y agoDon't forget the "I agree with you substantively, but aesthetically I must object" genre of political critique.
- dang 7y agoThat made me curious to look at the current top comments. Here they are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821601 Of those, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721 is a website style complaint; you get a point for that one. But it's also a classic example that standard moderation would mark as off topic. After doing that, the new top comment is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820028, which is a fine comment. So for this cross-section of stories your description covers 1/30 prior to standard moderation and 0/30 after. That's actually better than most claims of "always"!