Empty comments saying nothing more than "yay side" or "boo side" are unsubstantive regardless of how good and right their cause might be. On HN, we're trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity, which is definitely not served when people repeat talking points.

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It's not possible to have a site both for curiosity and for battle. In battle, repetition is critical: you have to hammer the same points over and over until you win. That affects curiosity the way that a tank battalion affects a park. Since we can't have both, we have to pick one; the one we pick here is curiosity. This implies nothing about any specific battle. It's simply the type of forum this is.