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Guilty, though I responded to the OPs "I'm amazed at the ignorance in these comments". You don't think that warrants the same comment?

• dang 12y ago
  No, because it wasn't personal. I agree with you that that phrase was irritating, in an otherwise fine comment. But that's not enough to pass the moderator-speaking-up threshold. Imagine how many moderator comments there would be in that case. :( I wish there were a way for users to suggest edits to each other's comments. My bet is that most of us have no idea when our comments include superfluous stuff that could easily be edited out. Suppose there were an easy way to send pull requests on comments. One could look at the diff and, if it improved the signal/noise ratio, simply accept the changes. HN needs more sober second thought.
  • lutorm 12y ago
    Well, as the author of one of the comments being accused of ignorance, I took it quite personally. Little comments like that start the slide and it's all downhill from there...
    • dang 12y ago
      That is sadly true. We're still interested in whatever might be done to curtail such downhill slides.