[melling]

When you read the comment about short range and the environmental impact of the batteries, they’re often highly upvoted by people that dislike electric vehicles too.

So, my point about someone drowning out someone’s project is proven by the top-rated comment about how it doesn’t work for them.

[dpark]

So you’re just going to pretend that the top comment doesn’t have a useful and relevant reply?

[melling]

Snips? It has been submitted 5 times this week. E.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16537734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544893

[dpark]

Yes. I don’t know if Snips is any good but it seems extremely relevant and the “I won’t use remote automation” comment led clearly to the posting of Snips in this conversation.

Putting aside Snips for a moment, my point with my last comment was to note that you took the “upvotes aren’t a meaningful indicator” tangent and ignored the rest of the reply. You ignored the fact that the criticism led to a meaningful reply and did in fact contribute to the conversation. You also ignored my questions about what constitutes actual contributions to a conversation. Is it just positivity? Because most of the positive stuff people post is still not new and it seems unreasonable to me to claim that criticism is at heart not contributing to the conversation while fanboyism is.

[melling]

Hey, good for the Snips developer to get another chance to promote his project again.

Hopefully, both projects get a few more people involved.

[dpark]

Hope so