[hinkley]

It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

On reddit they'd just invoke /r/lostredditor

My latest strategy is to hit back with humor. I don't know if it's working, but early results are positive.

[Rainymood]

>It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

Welcome to HN

[hinkley]

At no point did I claim it's new behavior. It's just getting old.

[zozbot234]

More like "Welcome to teh Internet"

[umvi]

It's called pedantry and lots of programmers seem afflicted by it.