" If hacker news wants to be a community where human beings take part rather than some large drone feeding me with 'programming' " news this article stays." fa

" If hacker news wants to be a community where human beings take part rather than some large drone feeding me with 'programming' " news this article stays." false dichotomy alert! A false dichotomy is a rhetorical device to position your favored option against a rhetorically maligned strawman opposite option. Given that no one actually wanted "drones feeding me with "programming, , your statement is not very persuasive. The actual options are about preferences for "insightful" articles about marriages, children etc vs "insightful" articles centered around programming, technology, startups etc. On this choice, people can (and do) differ, and that is perfectly fine. "If you felt pity for such people who did not have a good appreciation for dynamic nature of all things nature, then think a bit more" more putting words is my mouth. Where did I (or anyone else) say I felt "pity"? You are imagining the unexpressed motivations of others and reacting to your imagination. In other words, You seem to be setting up straw men and knocking them down. More strawmen " Just dealing with programming is not an automatic pass to be hacker news " - Nobody claimed this. " hacking together your one millionth web based todolist with email and sms feature." - nobody claimed this as a good idea either, especially against "you will suddenly find a new business" (false dichotomy again). Nutshell : lots of rhetorical smoke, very little fire. You make one good point ("Hacker is the quality in programming and not just the programming.") amongst all this false angst and strawman burning. And it is a very good one. It makes your post valuable. I thought the article inappropriate, (still do), flagged it, explained why, and was overridden. That is all right. Getting into a mud throwing contest about motivations is not. So I'll stop. I am done with this thread.