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"If you find that interesting, you might find this interesting" seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation for an HN comment. I think it's worth forgiving tha
by thom 4y ago
"If you find that interesting, you might find this interesting" seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation for an HN comment. I think it's worth forgiving that and enjoying the broader horizons rather than treating HN threads as a way for lots of smart people to try and craft the most definitive statement about one narrow issue, while policing any deviation therefrom.
- jefftk 4y ago> "If you find that interesting, you might find this interesting" seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation for an HN comment. But that's not the form of the comment. It begins with "I think there’s a good chance it was ghost written by a content farm"!
- thom 4y agoIf I were a content farm I'd probably use text cut and pasted from text models, but I'd never heard of the Mikkelson Twins and it was interesting to learn about them.
- coldtea 4y agoyes, so? can't we parse beyond the opening statement of the comment, and see the rest of its content? can't a comment not reiterate in its opening statement what the author already said (to e.g. show the commentor's aggrement)? this is too formulaic and pedantic a response