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"So many unnecessary words" to me is a good observation of the post's shortcomings, and ironically also applies to your comment.
by suction 5y ago
"So many unnecessary words" to me is a good observation of the post's shortcomings, and ironically also applies to your comment.
- dang 5y agoIt isn't interesting to list the generic shortcomings of a post. We want curious conversation here. The moderation comments I post are for sure repetitive and tedious. The justification for them is not that they're interesting in their own right (they aren't! and they're even more tedious to write than to read). It's that without them, HN would be globally worse off. They're an out-of-band feedback channel forming one component of the system by which the forum regulates itself. You can compare them to medicine which is toxic but which one takes anyway because the alternative is worse. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=tedious%20write%20read%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...