| 1) By not ignoring him, you'd be just as guilty. 2) However, he's not "complaining" about duplicates in those links. He's cross-referencing previous discussions in order to let people learn from them. 3) For what it's worth, he's been here almost two years -- you've been here barely half a year. I read through his history and found this really cool submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878264 Computer Graphics? Or Real? "Ultimate Batting Practice" Which led to the analysis of the video: http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/exposing-a-fake-vide... Which led to another analysis, "Water Slide Jump" http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/preemptive-mythbuste... http://scienceblogs.com/dotphysics/2009/08/more-on-the-giant... It pretty much demonstrates just how difficult it is to apply mathematics to analyze real-world problems, which is really interesting and thought-provoking IMO. Anyway, my point is, Colin has good taste, and you're doing him a serious disservice. He does good, helpful work, and I hope he doesn't stop, and doesn't straight-up leave, because the community would be worse off. I'd certainly be tempted to leave after reading something like what you wrote. |
3) That should by all means be completely and utterly irrelevant.
I think the OP recognizes Colins contributions, but is pointing out that there seems to be a lot of complaining / slight passive aggression in those comments. Isn't that a fair observation to make?
I'm not bothered by Colins postings. I sure would be bothered though, if HN turns in to your typical internet forum, where older members starts policing newer members about following the arbitrary forum rules ("use the search function, you dimwit!" style).