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You'll know that the top 40 comments are dynamic. The world doesn't revolve around you!

soneca 6y ago
They are ordered by a mix of recency and upvotes as far as I know. Which means the top 40 comments that I see are the same as you see, if I am correct, at the same moment. I understand the misunderstanding and the urge to correct me. I don’t understand the need for your accusation of egocentrism. Why did you do that?
- TLightful 6y ago
  Because there's sand beneath your statements. In which case better to avoid the comment altogether. I wouldn't take it to heart though. The (!) was an attempt to make the accusation light hearted. I guess it failed. Anyway, I'm no authority here. Just here for potshots!
  - soneca 6y ago
    I don’t know what “sand beneath your comments” means, if you care to explain.
    - TLightful 6y ago
      It's poetry :-)
  - deleted 6y ago
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- dxdm 6y ago
  Not GP, but there seems to be a ~8h difference between your comment and the one you were responding to. It's possible the comments they saw then were different from what you saw. For whatever reason you didn't think of that. I agree that accusing you of egocentrism is uncalled for. It does nothing to raise the quality of the discussion here, in fact it lowers it. Thanks for not taking the bait and staying reasonable in response. I hope you get an answer to your question.
  - dxdm 6y ago
    (Apparently there was a response to your question already, but it didn't load until after I wrote mine.)
  - soneca 6y ago
    I thought of that, but 40 root comments are a lot to go through. Not all of those are recent. The accusation that HN is not friendly to small lucrative endeavors seems very out of place to me and usually it’s just nitpick of very rare dismissive comments among hundreds of supportive comments. That’s why I asked for the go to point those out. Maybe I couldn’t find the “funny” comments because I am not sure what “funny” means. Dismissive? Negative feedback? Aggressive? Accusatory?

They are ordered by a mix of recency and upvotes as far as I know. Which means the top 40 comments that I see are the same as you see, if I am correct, at the same moment. I understand the misunderstanding and the urge to correct me. I don’t understand the need for your accusation of egocentrism. Why did you do that?

TLightful 6y ago
Because there's sand beneath your statements. In which case better to avoid the comment altogether. I wouldn't take it to heart though. The (!) was an attempt to make the accusation light hearted. I guess it failed. Anyway, I'm no authority here. Just here for potshots!
- soneca 6y ago
  I don’t know what “sand beneath your comments” means, if you care to explain.
  - TLightful 6y ago
    It's poetry :-)
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dxdm 6y ago
Not GP, but there seems to be a ~8h difference between your comment and the one you were responding to. It's possible the comments they saw then were different from what you saw. For whatever reason you didn't think of that. I agree that accusing you of egocentrism is uncalled for. It does nothing to raise the quality of the discussion here, in fact it lowers it. Thanks for not taking the bait and staying reasonable in response. I hope you get an answer to your question.
- dxdm 6y ago
  (Apparently there was a response to your question already, but it didn't load until after I wrote mine.)
- soneca 6y ago
  I thought of that, but 40 root comments are a lot to go through. Not all of those are recent. The accusation that HN is not friendly to small lucrative endeavors seems very out of place to me and usually it’s just nitpick of very rare dismissive comments among hundreds of supportive comments. That’s why I asked for the go to point those out. Maybe I couldn’t find the “funny” comments because I am not sure what “funny” means. Dismissive? Negative feedback? Aggressive? Accusatory?