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Actually, this is a very serious topic, and TFA is wrong in a number of ways. HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN. My own commentary on TFA is all over the comments on this HN post. I put more effort and detail into my comments on this post than GP, but GP is not wrong.

Commenting that a comment is exemplary of all that's wrong with HN is... popular, I'll grant you that, but it grates, and it's not really right. It's a "shut up" argument. Just downvote what you don't like, upvote what you do like, and reply with detailed commentary where you have something important to say. No need to disparage commenters.

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HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN.

This would be correct, if the objection were right. But the commentator was objectively incorrect, in a way that could have been avoided with something as small as a web search, and the comment had the audacity to do so in a condescending way. I didn't knock anyone who had a genuine objection to the post, I replied to an incredibly low-effort and low-quality comment pointing out that it was low-effort and low-quality.

Commenting that a comment is exemplary of all that's wrong with HN is... popular, I'll grant you that, but it grates, and it's not really right.

This is the first one I've ever made, and I post pretty frequently. I don't think it's wrong whatsoever, and I'm standing by it.

It's a "shut up" argument.

It absolutely is a "shut up" argument. Comments should not be written when they can't get the simplest of facts straight, and authors of them should think before they post.

No need to disparage commenters.

I didn't, I disparaged their comment. I don't think doing so was wrong, either, because the comment was practically equivalent to replying to a well-considered post with a PNG of a meme.

I saw nothing wrong with u/dwheeler's comment. I've addressed issues with static linking in more detail up and down this thread, so perhaps you won't tell me to "shut up", but really, it seems all you've got is "shut up". Maybe I could say something clever about comments like yours being representative of all that's wrong with HN, except I don't believe that -- no, I'm glad you get to say "shut up" -unpleasant though it is-, and I'm glad u/dwheeler can express skepticism without going into as much detail as you'd like even though you'll be there telling him to "shut up".

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