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0 pointsdimino9y ago0 comments

I understand what you're getting at, and you make a fair point, but you really don't think there's a trend on HN where pretty much every idea is called obvious or terrible by some of the most popular comments on a given submission?

I was hoping to put some red ink on the trend and maybe curtail it slightly, for what that's worth.

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dang9y ago

> you really don't think there's a trend on HN

It's really hard to assess that objectively because the cognitive biases affecting such perceptions are so strong. Certainly we don't want HN to be that way and try to nudge it in more fruitful directions. But the way to fight an undesirable pattern on HN is not with another undesirable pattern.

diminoOP9y ago

I'll defer to you on identifying undesirable patterns from now on, sorry.

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