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As you can probably guess, I strongly disagree with this decision. TempleOS articles have been appearing regularly on HN because the dude behind it has realized it's a safe haven for his nonsense. There is nothing to be learned from it, it's the ravings of someone with mental illness. Indulging him and giving him this "safe haven" where he gets the impression that professional programmers are treating his garbage seriously is doing no one any favors. Nor is the minority of developers on HN who actually do take it seriously doing anyone any favors.

It certainly isn't helping the quality of content on HN, if that's all you care about.

It pretty much is all I care about. And I respect that you disagree. Such moderation calls are far from obvious even to me, and must seem obviously wrong from many angles.

But you're in the minority in thinking that TempleOS doesn't belong on HN at all. Terry and his work are something that a lot of HN users care about, sympathize with, etc. No doubt some of the interest is just gawking and the pseudo-debates we invariably get about it are a scourge, but I don't think it would be fair to just ban the subject completely. Certainly many legit HN users would be upset if we did. So it's likely to remain one of those uncomfortable grey areas with no agreement and no clear solution.

Could you please stop calling this code "garbage"? Virtually everything else you have to say about this situation is colorable, but "garbage" is pure distilled meanness. I cringe at TempleOS threads too, but I'm discovering that comments like yours make me even more uncomfortable.

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