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I'm not being rigorous here, but it seems to me that the top comment on every HN article that points out anything wrong with an Apple product is by an Apple apologist? It's a bit...fawning.

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You certainly can't get far without someone playing the "apologist" or "fanboy" card. This is annoying because you are presenting no argument or evidence, you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen". I don't see what value that adds, it just dumbs down the entire conversation.

> you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen"

Firstly, that is not what I tried to say. I tried to say, "There's a whole bunch of Apple-apologist-upvoters", and for this...

> you are presenting no argument or evidence

...I did present evidence : the comment is the top comment, which means it was upvoted, eh?

I'm not arguing against Apple, but pointing out the prevalance of fawning brand-loyal upvoters.

The obvious solution would be for people who aren't Apple apologists to write better comments on such articles.

You make the assumption that the quality of comments has any bearing on placement. Simply put: it does not.

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