What is the ideal we're failing to live up to?
What is the ideal we're failing to live up to?
It was said better in another recent comment thread (I forget where): HN comments these days are full of people trying to sound like experts when they have no idea what they are talking about. I post about twice per day, max, and I think that's already more than I deserve to be able to say. Maybe that's what could be enforced here, so that people would really think hard before wasting a comment on hypothetical asides or repeating the same thing ten other people said.
Your perspective reminds me of some people on Stack Overflow who have a particular concept of how everyone else should post. If the people here don't live up to your ideals, maybe you should invite someone who works for Newegg to come comment. Hoping everyone else is going to stay quiet until the commenter of your dreams drops by probably isn't much use.