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Comment by madair | Hacker News Reader

This comment and the votes for it are just sad, and you people should be ashamed of yourselves. Welcome to groupthink, dorks.

(I'll proudly sacrifice my mojo just to sneer at this stupidity.)

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I won't downvote you, but you're accusing a bunch of people of upvoting that comment just because it was already upvoted, then insulting those people, then sneering at them and calling them stupid. If your goal is really to reprimand the community, you don't do it by being a douchenozzle yourself.

I upvoted the comment because, for all Wired is jizzing over it, we're talking about a product that was just released. There're no really interesting information here. And from what I see of the product, it looks painfully limited. Perhaps it executes well, but it's just not doing much. Compare to Apple, which makes products that do a lot and still manage to do it well.

So when Wired mentions how it's just like the iPhone zomg!!!, I get this little voice in my head telling me the author doesn't know what he's talking about. That makes me more willing to upvote somebody making a snide comment that I agree with.

Maybe it's not the most intelligent HN comment, but how's that become groupthink to upvote it? How's it stupid or worth your losing your mojo?

If by jizzing all over it you mean writing a review that points out that it's got a great form factor and the touch screen works great but it's very slow, has some odd features, and doesn't do much other than surf, then you're right on.

Did you read the article?

And yes, your description of my sneer as having all the hallmarks of a sneer are right on too.

Wired is writing a kneejerk review. I don't trust their criticisms just as I don't trust their compliments. They simply haven't had the JooJoo for long enough.

If you're only posting to be a cunt, there's no reason to be posting at all. You're allowed to sneer on your cozy little weblog for all your friends to read. Here we're pretending to be gentlemen.

I won't downvote you either, but to answer your first question, it is group think because it is a vague one-liner that puts down a rather great accomplishment from an underdog in favor of a mainstream brand name. The added fact that "it's not the most intelligent" comment and it is indeed being upvoted reinforces the argument that groupthink is at play.

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