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Am I the only person that thought jerrya's original comment was quite well thought out and reasonable, and was only later put off the discussion by other people
by burgerbrain 15y ago
Am I the only person that thought jerrya's original comment was quite well thought out and reasonable, and was only later put off the discussion by other people attacking him?
If criticisms such as jerrya's are the plague of Reddit, then surely "this is a bad HN comment" is the plague of HN. And yes, I realize I risk being self-referential here, but I really think this needs proper calling out.
- BrandonM 15y agoI thought jerrya's original comment was reasonable until I got to, "citation-needed.jpg." I was actually "lucky" that he included that bit, making me question the relevance of his entire post. It is not unintelligent or spammy comments that endanger the discourse at Hacker News. It is comments that seem to be saying something worthwhile that get upvoted and take up valuable real estate on the comment threads while being of almost no value that threaten to bring Hacker News too close to the multitude of other sites out there. It used to be that the HN comment threads were multiple times better than the submissions themselves. I would have a very hard time arguing that today.