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Please rethink these types of comments. They don't do anything to improve Hacker News.

• glibgil 12y ago
  Why can't I down vote the concern troll? Or, why aren't those with the power to down vote able to detect the concern troll? A valid argument was made that couchsurfing.com is an actual sharing economy and AirBnB has stopped being one. The concern troll ignored and derailed the argument.
  • Cogito 12y ago
    This comment is much more useful than your grandparent comment. Down voting might be the correct action (if you were able to), but a short meme/snark comment is almost never appreciated.
    • glibgil 12y ago
      Thanks for HNplaining to me. The question was rhetorical. I know the answer: this is an echo chamber and AirBnB is precious.
      • Cogito 12y ago
        No worries ;) For what it's worth, I actually agree with your point. The parent of your first comment was (at least to some degree) derailing the conversation. I didn't even consider that it was a derailment until your second comment. I think you did have something valuable to add to the discussion, but I did not initially see it because your first comment was so pointlessly unnecessary. Based on you pointing out the behaviour, I will now try to recognise and downvote 'concern trolling' that derails conversations. It's unfortunate that you weren't able to communicate that more effectively the first time.