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I am very surprised by the reaction you're getting.

Some large subset of the HN crowd isn't interested in being civil, or preferring realistic comparisons to hyperbole, when talking about Facebook anymore.

The two above comments I made are sitting at moderately positive vote counts, so it makes me happy that at least > 50% of HN is bored of the way we've been discussing this topic for the last few years.

It’s not fair to call my comment uncivil.

I don't think the civil comment was directed at you specifically

It takes awhile before people gain the ability to downvote, so an aggregate vote of 1 does not imply a 50% split. There is a bias toward positive vote totals, since people can upvote but not downvote when they join Hacker News. On any thread there are more people who can upvote than downvote.

It would be useful if Hacker News would either make a magnitude number available or the actual up and down votes. A comment that gets 3 upvotes versus 2 downvotes will have the same total as a comment that has 412 upvotes versus 411 downvotes, but clearly one comment was ignored while the other struck a nerve.

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