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You’re a hundred percent right and I’ve noted it before, but this is exactly what happens if you call it out (your post gets buried) because there’s a nice mix

You’re a hundred percent right and I’ve noted it before, but this is exactly what happens if you call it out (your post gets buried) because there’s a nice mix of people who are emotionally attached to AMD and see AMD as their best bud who's showing Intel what’s what and not a profit driven company that would squeeze them exactly as much as they could afford if they were in a better position... and people who bought AMD stock, but none of Intel or anything much else, because they see the CPU market as a 0 sum game. AMD was a darling of first time investors on a certain platform and they don't diversify. It’s not that their constant wall of pro-AMD stock noise is going to affect the stock price, but it also becomes a bit of an emotional thing for them. All the AMD posts here end up looking a lot more like Reddit than Hacker News

spectramax 7y ago
I am pointing it out as an observation but apparently it feels like I've poked the hornet's nest. So much hostility for criticizing HN.
- BoorishBears 7y ago
  It’s not (just) HN, it’s AMD. HN is not exactly the source of truth for anything technical, but generally people are either in the ballpark on technical comments, or (more likely) get corrected by someone who is. On AMD posts that doesn’t happen and it just becomes a low quality cesspool of “I just bought a gaming PC and chose AMD”, “Intel is on life support right now omg”, and a few poorly supported rationalizations of the post's topic. And when you call it out these people assume you’re defending Intel (because to them it’s a holy war)