That just means it wasn't a perfect example for what I was referring to, but if I were to go digging, I could find you ten thousands of comments like these: ht

That just means it wasn't a perfect example for what I was referring to, but if I were to go digging, I could find you ten thousands of comments like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512254 It really just is small talk, no information, nothing. Instead of trying to find a rationalization for these, too, why not accept that yeah, small talk is perfectly fine, until it's not, and it's frowned upon, unless it isn't? Because it contradicts the self-congratulatory notion that "folks here prefer substance"?