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It's a variation on the famous "Your post advocates a [...] approach to fighting spam" form from Slashdot during the days of the email spam crisis: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt .

http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

Was the "your new anti-spam system sucks" checklist based off of this, or the reverse?

The reverse, I think.

You appear to be asking a rhetorical question on HN. Here is why it will not succeed ....

We have answers for everything.

But we generally choose them from a surprisingly small set, so YMMV.

Also worthy of note: "You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform..." http://qntm.org/calendar

Probably Atom, Nitrous, Light Table, and all the other Web IDEs being created in recent years.