I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some t

I posted before on HN about this trend, of commenters often completely forgetting about the original article, and arguing a lot (in child comments) about some top-voted comment. I called it the Hacker News Right-Side Effect (or Rule) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405167