Comment by jseliger
9 years ago
The remarks here on HN dissing this article piqued my curiosity
The other day I read a comment observing that commenters here have an almost Pavlovian response that compels them to disagree with the article. That seems right to me. A while ago I wrote this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300542, which touches on similar themes.
People who agree don't post. It's why online communities tend towards contrarian, which tends towards crackpot.
I'd rather see remarks disagreeing rather then bobbing heads at every topic.
The problem is that broadly the disagreements are so shallow.
People bounce off a word choice or something in the first paragraph then either stop reading or skim.... then post about it.
Meaty discussion is not really served by either approach.