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The list of most commented threads is dominated by an artifact, because at the bottom of some essays I link to the News.YC thread as if it were for blog comments. E.g. "Microsoft is Dead" is not the most interesting story to News.YC readers. In fact, last time I looked, most of the recent comments were just people saying "fuck you" at various levels of articulateness.

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I agree that the "most commented threads" isn't exactly a "best of" list--in fact, they're some of the more controversial/ugly threads to appear on YC, but that's why I found it interesting.

I agree with Paul about that because a lot of "Ask YC" threads have tons of comments but aren't really what I'm looking for...but what is useful is the SEARCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH for that.

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just people saying "fuck you" at various levels of articulateness

  <cynicism>Isn't that what 99% of all comments on the web are?</cynicism>

I think that is why I enjoy YC News so much, the rate is only like 30%.

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