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I don't think you need to put a whole lot of thought into why this article was posted. I think you already know the answer in fact. It's a terrible article and

I don't think you need to put a whole lot of thought into why this article was posted. I think you already know the answer in fact. It's a terrible article and it's written in a terrible way. Who might want to post that here?

dang 5y ago
You've broken the site guidelines with this comment, assuming I'm reading your insinuation correctly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Users are asked not to post such insinuations unless there is evidence. "Evidence" means something specific and concrete and objective. Someone else liking an article you dislike on some widely divisive topic is not evidence, it's just normal. (How bad the article may be is irrelevant to this point.)
- varelse 5y ago
  The evidence would be the obvious blatant disinfo clickbait and political slant nature of the article and its source itself as opposed to any sort of subjective but at least moderatively informative news about technology or the social impact of technology but of course that's an insinuation too, I get it. But why would a typical "hacker" want "news" about CNN ratings? Maybe the raw numbers as a source of data (not that this article supplies them of course), but a mostly evidence free conjectural rant about its imminent demise? I'll wait. But while I'm waiting, can I get you to delete my account and my entire history here? 5 enthusiastic stars if you'll do that for me. An obvious rulebreaker like myself has never made a useful contribution here ever and everyone will be better off with my entire comment history safely deleted. Or is it something something hypothetical imaginary ycombinator possible future liability something something else so that would be a no? Or TLDR: Hacker News actually does aspire to become the new Reddit? This is a sincere request. I really want to disconnect entirely from most of the internet. And this would be a great place to disconnect from as well. I await your potential response or the demise of this account with enthusiastic ennui.

dang 5y ago

You've broken the site guidelines with this comment, assuming I'm reading your insinuation correctly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Users are asked not to post such insinuations unless there is evidence. "Evidence" means something specific and concrete and objective. Someone else liking an article you dislike on some widely divisive topic is not evidence, it's just normal. (How bad the article may be is irrelevant to this point.)

varelse 5y ago
The evidence would be the obvious blatant disinfo clickbait and political slant nature of the article and its source itself as opposed to any sort of subjective but at least moderatively informative news about technology or the social impact of technology but of course that's an insinuation too, I get it. But why would a typical "hacker" want "news" about CNN ratings? Maybe the raw numbers as a source of data (not that this article supplies them of course), but a mostly evidence free conjectural rant about its imminent demise? I'll wait. But while I'm waiting, can I get you to delete my account and my entire history here? 5 enthusiastic stars if you'll do that for me. An obvious rulebreaker like myself has never made a useful contribution here ever and everyone will be better off with my entire comment history safely deleted. Or is it something something hypothetical imaginary ycombinator possible future liability something something else so that would be a no? Or TLDR: Hacker News actually does aspire to become the new Reddit? This is a sincere request. I really want to disconnect entirely from most of the internet. And this would be a great place to disconnect from as well. I await your potential response or the demise of this account with enthusiastic ennui.