[dang]

> I think you know you've got a winning idea when the esteemed commenters on HN all dismiss it out of hand.

Please don't diss the community as a rhetorical device. There's no substance in that, and since you're also an esteemed commenter on HN, it's false.

[dimino]

I understand what you're getting at, and you make a fair point, but you really don't think there's a trend on HN where pretty much every idea is called obvious or terrible by some of the most popular comments on a given submission?

I was hoping to put some red ink on the trend and maybe curtail it slightly, for what that's worth.

[dang]

> you really don't think there's a trend on HN

It's really hard to assess that objectively because the cognitive biases affecting such perceptions are so strong. Certainly we don't want HN to be that way and try to nudge it in more fruitful directions. But the way to fight an undesirable pattern on HN is not with another undesirable pattern.

[dimino]

I'll defer to you on identifying undesirable patterns from now on, sorry.