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I don't know that I've seen a human blogger on HN produce a really novel thought that hasn't already been written about ad nauseam.

This blog post is itself a good example. It may have the author's voice, but it's just another rehashing of something that a million people have said before already. HN loves upvoting blog posts about why you should blog. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+blog

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I read Stratechery. He’s had some novel thoughts. He just repeats them ad nauseam.

He’s made quite a living from blogging.

https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/how-ben-thompson-...

I can't find a less snarky way to say this, but why are you here then? I figure there's enough signal in the noise to make it worth it.

Do you mean on HN or in this particular thread?

Value is not measured in novelty alone.

I’ve seen novel thoughts, but typically they are coming from trolls who are taking impossibly contrarian opinions and presenting horrifying morally bankrupt perspectives. Maybe these ideas are common elsewhere though.

All the “good” ideas that can be said have probably been said. Maybe that’s why some people just enjoy trolling: for the novelty.

> Maybe these ideas are common elsewhere though.

I don't know which ideas you're talking about, but I bet they are. Humanity has thousands of years of recorded navelgazing (the blog post) and reactions to navelgazing (me) and reactions to reactions to navelgazing (you) and so on.

> Maybe that’s why some people just enjoy trolling: for the novelty.

Novelty is a morally bankrupt reason to enjoy trolling, so maybe you're onto something.

>Maybe that’s why some people just enjoy trolling: for the novelty.

Or a most general word 'fun' ? ( yes it's a catch all...)

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