And at no point did I say that the description was technically incorrect: I said that it did not characterise the behaviour of the system very well. HN comment

And at no point did I say that the description was technically incorrect: I said that it did not characterise the behaviour of the system very well. HN comments are another example of a system that is technically competitive, but is better characterised as collaborative: we argue, we vote, the ranking system surfaces the "best" comments at the expense of "lesser" ones… and yet we're all working together to produce something hopefully interesting for the lurkers to read.