I’ve developed a habbit of automatically downvoting the top comment on most popular submissions because more often than not they are always some knee-jerk, often stupid contrarian reaction to the submission.
I don’t know when this trend started but I don’t remember it being this bad in the past.
I’ve developed a habbit of automatically downvoting the top comment on most popular submissions because more often than not they are always some knee-jerk, often stupid contrarian reaction to the submission.
I don’t know when this trend started but I don’t remember it being this bad in the past.
People have been complaining about this for over a decade now. Here's some comments by pg himself, on the "middlebrow dismissal":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397542
I guess a knee-jerk reaction demands a knee-jerk response?
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To be fair to them, no one's proven them wrong yet.
Or some of us have opinions that are complex enough to both despise Meta and think that this post is poorly framed.