> I'd actually expect them to engage with, say, 1k websites to voluntarily participate for some remuneration and then restrict the Agents' access to those domains, but apparently I'm crazy.
Why pay for what you can take for free?
Why pay for what you can take for free?
Is it because people don't agree that one can just take such things for free? Well, I also don't, but this was obviously a sarcastic comment, so down voting for that reason makes no sense since you agree with its sentiment.
Or is it because of the style? Are we really so sensitive now that anything not said explicitly but in some indirect way is bad? It's not like the comment was insulting anybody. Should it explicitly have said "They don't renumerate anybody because they clearly get away with it"? Would that really have been better?
Or do the down voters not agree with the sentiment but consider the behavior ok?
Or something else I'm overlooking?
On that note, there’s another rule about not commenting on comment votes as well:
>>> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FWIW I agree with you, but the rules do seem mostly effective in general.
Anyways, welcome to HN!
Sarcasm probably accounts for half of the comments on this site.