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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, ofte
by 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 agoI guess a knee-jerk reaction demands a knee-jerk response?
- steveklabnik 2y agoPeople 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