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Your false dichotomy is unappealing. A third option (for starters) is that there are so many overreactions and mistakes in this story that there are many parti
by bluehat 14y ago
Your false dichotomy is unappealing.
A third option (for starters) is that there are so many overreactions and mistakes in this story that there are many parties to be outraged with. The outrage isn't uniformly distributed across parties to blame but everybody feels it. This is how these threads get so long. If the community was not divided, these threads would be short simple affairs.
- jessedhillon 14y agoI don't know if we're reading the same threads then. I see a nearly unambiguous, unidirectional wave of resentment, and the downmodding of anyone expressing anything remotely dissenting. A normal HN dialogue has people showing restraint when downmodding, even on topics where there is heated disagreement and passionate opinion, say something like "Does PHP suck?" This is a deluge of unanimity, by comparison.