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I’d argue that the parent post you’re replying to is relatively positive and factual, and it’s the knee-jerk responses that it triggered that are the problem.

I’d argue that the parent post you’re replying to is relatively positive and factual, and it’s the knee-jerk responses that it triggered that are the problem. Now you can argue that this is why the parent post is a flamebait, but since the sole fact that Cuba is such a small, socialist country is why this vaccin is interesting in the first place, you may as well ban this vaccin from being discussed on HN entirely.

dang 5y ago
When a comment contains flamebait, which the GP obviously did, it bears responsibility for the knee-jerk responses that it triggers. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22expected%20value%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... > you may as well ban this vaccin from being discussed on HN entirely I'm sorry, but that makes no sense to me. The situation seems rather simple: non-flamebait, non-flamewar discussion of the vaccine story is welcome. Flamebait and flamewar, about this story or any other story, is not.
- cft 5y ago
  I screenshot despegar's comment when it was the top one and sent it to my tech friends (with the implied meaning - see how useless HN has become, it's been overwhelmed by the ideologues, it's a write-off). So thanks for trying to defend the formerly great site. And separately: in the last 5 years i took a break from the Silicon Valley and spent most of the time in Latin America, traveling and learning Spanish. Check my IP history. Had to deal with the medical system and with the so called "Cuban doctors" in various countries. The original comment completely distorts the factual truth about Cuban medicine.
  - dang 5y ago
    Ok, but I'm not commenting about Cuba, for or against. I'm commenting only about internet flamewar dynamics. The comment would be the same if the political polarity were reversed, so it's a misreading to take it as ammunition in favor of any political position.

dang 5y ago

When a comment contains flamebait, which the GP obviously did, it bears responsibility for the knee-jerk responses that it triggers. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22expected%20value%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... > you may as well ban this vaccin from being discussed on HN entirely I'm sorry, but that makes no sense to me. The situation seems rather simple: non-flamebait, non-flamewar discussion of the vaccine story is welcome. Flamebait and flamewar, about this story or any other story, is not.

cft 5y ago
I screenshot despegar's comment when it was the top one and sent it to my tech friends (with the implied meaning - see how useless HN has become, it's been overwhelmed by the ideologues, it's a write-off). So thanks for trying to defend the formerly great site. And separately: in the last 5 years i took a break from the Silicon Valley and spent most of the time in Latin America, traveling and learning Spanish. Check my IP history. Had to deal with the medical system and with the so called "Cuban doctors" in various countries. The original comment completely distorts the factual truth about Cuban medicine.
- dang 5y ago
  Ok, but I'm not commenting about Cuba, for or against. I'm commenting only about internet flamewar dynamics. The comment would be the same if the political polarity were reversed, so it's a misreading to take it as ammunition in favor of any political position.