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by dang 2364 days ago
Yes, the repetitive angry comments, which get snarkier and snarkier to distinguish themselves, certainly get boring. But posts like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923259 are not any way to combat this–it just leads to second-order versions of the same thing. The only way to combat it is to post substantive, thoughtful first-order comments of your own. Or failing that, at least not to feed it by not posting.