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Comment by pythonaut_16 | Hacker News Reader

It's a blog post directly on their website. Is it really unreasonable to need to click to the home page for more context?

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At the time you posted this comment, there was no link to the home page for mobile devices. Also, on mobile devices it's a pain to edit the URL in the address bar. You could have gone to the About page, but there's no summary. You'd gather right away that this was about an editor, but you'd have to read quite a bit about history, goals, etc. before you find out what differentiates this editor from any other editor.

Fair. I checked the site on my laptop and the logo at the top left easily got me to the homepage that described the editor.

People on the internet expect everything to be spoonfed to them.

Kinda wild to me that people who frequent a website that bills itself as a site for news for "hackers" show such a nil-level of ability to comprehend anything themselves.

This website allows extremely vituperative people to make their points without being banned as long as they follow the rules. My account being the primary example.

That this website is littered with retarded morons that cannot handle the slightest bit of pure direct argumentation is more a function of the times, where heavy-handed moderation fills in for massive gaps in their vacuous perspective, which in any other situation completely undermines one's understanding of the world outside a pseudo-intellectual bubble.

The moderates here do better than any other online, IMO. And I say that knowing the moderators here do not unflag some of my comments because it's ideologically inconvenient to them personally.

Maybe because it works to often..

While it's hard to separate them, derision and mockery aren't considered ad hominem insults to vacuous and lazy commentary.

When you eliminate all human repercussions for acting like a moron, even if it's as small as feeling bad, one should expect to see more idiocy.

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