I mean no disrespect, but with nearly 20K "karma" points on HN, I know the rules, and when I'm flouting them a bit. I rarely do, and not the more serious ones.

I mean no disrespect, but with nearly 20K "karma" points on HN, I know the rules, and when I'm flouting them a bit. I rarely do, and not the more serious ones. But this whole discussion is such a shit show, filled with so much "of course they're all bad" nonsense that I sacrificed some of that pointless karma to agree with someone in that regard. I recognize your username from this thread, you were one of the accounts that came to mind as a big bandwagon offender of the "it's all bad and there can be no nuance" rhetoric :). Have a good day! And I mean that quite sincerely. It's a beautiful spring day here and I'm just visiting my desk momentarily after spending the last hour waking up the swimming pool and preparing it for this weekend. Time to go back outside and forget about the Internet for a while. Other than this reply, I've ceased posting in this discussion and hidden it to avoid the temptation.