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Straw man arguments are as detrimental to the community as proposing users shouldn't discuss what's happening in their community openly. Don't tell me my point
by bluefish 18y ago
Straw man arguments are as detrimental to the community as proposing users shouldn't discuss what's happening in their community openly. Don't tell me my point is invalid by suggesting I spend my time doing something unrelated to writing comments. In any case I do monitor the threads I've responded to because, as I've stated, I believe active discussion is vital to the continuation of the community. If you feel monitoring the discussion around comments is unproductive, than the irony of you "nannying" this thread and responding to my two comments is not lost on me, nor is the fact to you apparently missed the final sentence of my first post, to reiterate: "Still, post on and let the community decide I suppose."
- rjurney 18y agoWell dude... this is my thread. I posted it. Is it still ironic?
- qu1j0t3 18y agoCan you explain where the straw man is here? It seems self evident that "posting more of what I'd like to see on HN" is more CONstructive than kvetching in the vein of "I hope we don't get more articles like this down the road, it's not what I come here to see." Still, kvetch on and let the community decide.