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Standard hackernews top comment dismissal.

• miltonlost 2y ago
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  • lenerdenator 2y ago
    To be fair to them, no one's proven them wrong yet.
  • ziml77 2y ago
    Or some of us have opinions that are complex enough to both despise Meta and think that this post is poorly framed.
• adamors 2y ago
  I’ve developed a habbit of automatically downvoting the top comment on most popular submissions because more often than not they are always some knee-jerk, often stupid contrarian reaction to the submission. I don’t know when this trend started but I don’t remember it being this bad in the past.
  • rcfox 2y ago
    I guess a knee-jerk reaction demands a knee-jerk response?
  • steveklabnik 2y ago
    People have been complaining about this for over a decade now. Here's some comments by pg himself, on the "middlebrow dismissal": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397542