> I like to imagine that hacker culture is still about judging ideas on their merit. If by hacker culture you mean Stallmanist culture, sure. Stallman is the g

> I like to imagine that hacker culture is still about judging ideas on their merit. If by hacker culture you mean Stallmanist culture, sure. Stallman is the guy who thinks necrophilia has merit because of a wrong interpretation of the Constitution, and therefor, being anti-necrophilia is narrow minded. He and his followers are true paragons of merit-based discourse. Now... for the rest of us, some ideas are blatantly disdainful, you can skip explaining why they have no merit and go straight to telling someone to delete them. I mean seriously, if your comment sounds like some sort of eugenics manifesto, just delete it, why do you deserve an explanation of why that's bad? - This whole comment chain reminds me of the new wave of anti-anti-racism where "racism is ok if you support it with well misconstrued factoids"... The problem is, there's almost no overlap between ideas that are so blatantly racist they don't deserve a second thought, and ideas that are worth a second thought upon examination. See: above comment's useless point, which was wrong anyways, or Stallman