> The parent poster is not making an apology. Downvotes from creating a plausibly deniable strawman and then tearing it down are less than the upvotes from doi

> The parent poster is not making an apology. Downvotes from creating a plausibly deniable strawman and then tearing it down are less than the upvotes from doing a good job tearing down the strawman. This kind of crap discourse is incentivized in a "if lawsuits are cheaper than recall we don't do a recall" sort of way. HN (and other social media) is rife with this behavior/feedback loop.