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I swear the top comment on every popular post is always about semantics or nitpicking and is very rarely about anything in the article itself.

rityvkjivfgj 10mo ago
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AppleBananaPie 10mo ago
This doesn't seem to be the case here. Which comment is showing up top for you?
- weberer 10mo ago
  The comment by Arch-TK is currently the top for me.
  - TheSkyHasEyes 10mo ago
    Interesting. RajT88 20 minute old post is top on my end.
    - teach 10mo ago
      For me, the top comment is currently cmarschner's day-old comment enumerating a bunch of other examples of botched redaction
ziml77 10mo ago
I noticed my most recent nitpick comment got a significant number of upvotes. I spent some time today wondering if HN needed a way to indicate something is a nitpick and cause the votes on it to carry less weight in the sorting. Because if the nitpick is valid I don't think downvotes are appropriate since people might end up seeing it and having misconceptions corrected, but it also shouldn't detract from discussions on the meat of the post. Of course I'm probably the odd one out, wanting to apply that modifier to my own nitpick comments, so that idea probably wouldn't end up being very useful in general. (There is also some irony in me commenting on your comment here where it's completely unrelated to the actual post...)
rtaylorgarlock 10mo ago
Ah, you new 'round these parts? It's unfashionable to speak directly--we must fragment, hypothesize, add complexity and nuance rather than simply leave someone's slightly vague statement uncorrected. -_-
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo ago
As nitpicks go ( public misundersatnding based on word selection by summarizing party ), this one is valid.
bigyabai 10mo ago
HN rewards "technical discussion" in controversial threads, even when it's not salient or intellectually gratifying. Touching on the political implications is enough to split opinion and guarantee your place towards the middle/bottom of the thread.
HaZeust 10mo ago
You'll find that in a community full of pragmatic pedants.

rityvkjivfgj 10mo ago

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AppleBananaPie 10mo ago

This doesn't seem to be the case here. Which comment is showing up top for you?

weberer 10mo ago
The comment by Arch-TK is currently the top for me.
- TheSkyHasEyes 10mo ago
  Interesting. RajT88 20 minute old post is top on my end.
  - teach 10mo ago
    For me, the top comment is currently cmarschner's day-old comment enumerating a bunch of other examples of botched redaction

ziml77 10mo ago

I noticed my most recent nitpick comment got a significant number of upvotes. I spent some time today wondering if HN needed a way to indicate something is a nitpick and cause the votes on it to carry less weight in the sorting. Because if the nitpick is valid I don't think downvotes are appropriate since people might end up seeing it and having misconceptions corrected, but it also shouldn't detract from discussions on the meat of the post. Of course I'm probably the odd one out, wanting to apply that modifier to my own nitpick comments, so that idea probably wouldn't end up being very useful in general. (There is also some irony in me commenting on your comment here where it's completely unrelated to the actual post...)

rtaylorgarlock 10mo ago

Ah, you new 'round these parts? It's unfashionable to speak directly--we must fragment, hypothesize, add complexity and nuance rather than simply leave someone's slightly vague statement uncorrected. -_-

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo ago

As nitpicks go ( public misundersatnding based on word selection by summarizing party ), this one is valid.

bigyabai 10mo ago

HN rewards "technical discussion" in controversial threads, even when it's not salient or intellectually gratifying. Touching on the political implications is enough to split opinion and guarantee your place towards the middle/bottom of the thread.

HaZeust 10mo ago

You'll find that in a community full of pragmatic pedants.