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> You dislike criticism No, I love criticism, as long as it's balanced and thoughtful, and invites discussion rather than being knee-jerk reactionary. Please r

• ExoticPearTree 5mo ago
  > No, I love criticism, as long as it's balanced and thoughtful, and invites discussion You forgot to add "and it matches my worldview of things". Knee-jerk criticism is very fine, like "Microsoft sucks" anytime someone mentions Microsoft. You can just ignore it and move on.
  • esperent 5mo ago
    No, I intentionally didn't add that. Please challenge my worldview, engage and disagree me. Just put some effort in, please. However, you're still missing the salient point of my comment - that is, overwhelmingly the comments on any post related to the EU here are low effort, negative, reactionary. Honestly, I feel like you're not willing to engage with the point. It's not even the negativity that's my main issue here, it's the overwhelming low-effort, thoughtless nature of it which prevents any attempt at genuine discussion (positive or negative). It's groupthink, reddit style, and while HN is far from perfect there's almost no other subject that brings out this kind of reaction. Except for React, maybe.
    • ExoticPearTree 5mo ago
      You're wrong.