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Ugh, why would anyone up-vote this comment? Some how this is the top comment, even though it doesn't address the content of the article. This happens all the ti
by andrewljohnson 14y ago
Ugh, why would anyone up-vote this comment? Some how this is the top comment, even though it doesn't address the content of the article. This happens all the time on HN and I find it very annoying.
It's not just that I don't want to scroll past this comment. These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article. Instead of people discussing the merits of the new GMail UI, there is an endless chain of replies burying all the topical comments.
I've said it before - I'd like to see a community guideline advising people not to make comments like this. These comments end up being easy ways to score points, entertaining for the people involved in the criticism, but harmful for the topical discussion. If it's a "Show HN" post about a hacker's new project, it seems topical to criticize the technology, but when it's a blog post, it seems so lame to criticize the blog software.
This kind of complaint belongs in its own thread - it should be a blogpost or something. The comment doesn't even apply to me - the page works perfectly and crisply for me.
- bitwiseXOR 14y agosome perspective: it's an article about a new way to compose email... not a big woop, and all the points in is irrele-rant were spot on; the blog's design antics are distracting. stop being so jerky.
- jaydz 14y agoAgreed, these ux complaints are getting annoying.
- MaysonL 14y agoSo, of course, are these horrible ux's.
- te_chris 14y agoI'm finding HN harder and harder to deal with without comment upvote counts to provide perspective as a filtering mechanism. I find that regulars and comments like this always tend to get upvoted, even when they're normally far from the most insightful comments posted.
- tharris0101 14y agoNormally I'd agree but I came in here to post this same thing as the page is almost unreadable for me in Chrome.
- guelo 14y agoI found your meta-meta comment more useless, better to just let it be. OTOH this meta-meta-meta comment is fantastic, especially this sentence.
- afterburner 14y agoHe's getting upvoted because it had to be said... finally.
- Kylekramer 14y agoYeah! After all, it isn't like this comes up every (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070192 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070192) single (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767025 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767025) time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196833 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196833) a official Google blogpost is submitted or even is brought up.
- MaysonL 14y agoI never did read the article because of the same features that the comment you're complaining about complains about. The format of the google blog seriously sucks. EDIT: I just realized: the Readability bookmarklet manages to hide all the cruft, and make the post readable. Amazing.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago> These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article. And for others this is one of the main values of HN. Usually the discussions here are much better / insightful than original articles, and quite often those interesting discussions are tangential to the article itself. Let the community decide what to discuss about, in terms of topic (and the community do decide, by the means of an upvote).
- GHFigs 14y agoit doesn't address the content of the article I wholeheartedly disagree. The singing and dancing crap that people surround their text and images with is content. It's just crap content. Think about it the other way: if it's not content, why is it even there? Why does a blog need a loading screen?
- ablefire 14y agoIt would be helpful to have some way to collapse a comment thread that we are not interested in.