You lay out the reasoning for your blog post in a succinct and plausible fashion.
One is free to assume, of course, that you're a tinfoil wearing paranoiac and disagree with your reasoning, but down voting such a comment, into which you actually expend the effort to explain your reasoning just seems so wrong, infantile and dumb.
Another trend I unfortunately observed recently where comments around the line of: "Don't link to this (the this being a blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, which is hardly controversial) since [paraphrased] it does not reflect the dogma of the HN politburo.
It's crap like that, which really devalues HN and I think that's a shame.
This sort of thing is par for the course. Especially in articles critical of Google or Apple, less so with articles critical of Microsoft. That's likely both a reflection of the number of people working for those companies that also frequent HN and the dedicated group of fanboys each has.
You lay out the reasoning for your blog post in a succinct and plausible fashion.
One is free to assume, of course, that you're a tinfoil wearing paranoiac and disagree with your reasoning, but down voting such a comment, into which you actually expend the effort to explain your reasoning just seems so wrong, infantile and dumb.
Another trend I unfortunately observed recently where comments around the line of: "Don't link to this (the this being a blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, which is hardly controversial) since [paraphrased] it does not reflect the dogma of the HN politburo.
It's crap like that, which really devalues HN and I think that's a shame.