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> This is completely and utterly wrong .. If you're going to make such a strong statement, it would make sense to at least put out a tl;dr; of your argument. O
by argumentum 13y ago
> This is completely and utterly wrong ..
If you're going to make such a strong statement, it would make sense to at least put out a tl;dr; of your argument. Otherwise, your comment just functions as an advertisement for your blog post. (I'm sure that wasn't your intention).
- vinceguidry 13y agoHe still has to write that argument before he can tl:dr it. I thought it was pretty clear from his comment that his thoughts weren't totally hashed out yet.
- moot 13y agoI did in fact only just sit down after leaving that comment ~12 hours ago. Hope to have something up by tomorrow or Wednesday.
- gknoy 13y agoGiven that he founded one of the most famous anonymous web forums on the planet, I'm liable to be interested in his reasons. People being jerks seems to be a really common thing on the internet, so I'm quite curious of his counterpoint. I take his link less as a blog-advertisement, and more of a "I'm more likely to update that than edit my comment on HN". I'd love it if, after he writes his blog post, he were to summarize it in an edit to his HN comment.
- steveklabnik 13y agoYou also can't edit HN comments after an hour or so.
- argumentum 13y agoI know who moot is, and am also interested in what he has to say .. But stating that Sam was "completely and utterly wrong" isn't constructive and doesn't advance any argument.
- avn2109 13y agoFWIW, I have no idea who moot is, and lacking that context, it's much easier to interpret this as mere self-promotion.
- MaulingMonkey 13y agoHe's the dude behind 4chan, an image board which allows/encourages anonymous posting.
- earbitscom 13y agoAs someone who had no idea who this was based solely on a username, it absolutely came off as a ploy to get blog clicks by trolling.