Comment by fwip
3 months ago
Sure, there's no guy with a gun forcing you to read it.
But we're on a site about sharing content for intellectual discussion, right? So when people keep posting the same garbage without labeling it, and you figure it halfway though the article, it's frustrating to find out you wasted your time.
To use your soup analogy: imagine this was a website to share restaurants. You see a cool new Korean place upvoted, so you stop by there for lunch sometime. You sit down, you order, and then ten minutes later, Al comes out with his trademark thin, watery soup again.
In that scenario, it's entirely reasonable to leave a comment, "Ugh, don't bother with this place, it's just Al and his shitty soup again."
Unlike the Korean place, this soup kitchen isn't charging you.
You're whining about someone else performing an act of charity. If you want better soup, go to a restaurant, not a soup kitchen. The soup kitchen doesn't care about your complaints. The target audience obviously isn't food critics, it's people who meaningfully benefit from free soup.
For a food critic to walk into the soup kitchen and complain is an egocentric act by the food critic that mistakenly assumes the whole world revolves around them. The complaint itself is bizarrely egotistical, entitled, and offputting.
Okay, you clearly don't comprehend your own analogy and have resorted to having an LLM argue for you.