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by throwaway0a5e 1571 days ago
> The parent poster is not making an apology.

Downvotes from creating a plausibly deniable strawman and then tearing it down are less than the upvotes from doing a good job tearing down the strawman. This kind of crap discourse is incentivized in a "if lawsuits are cheaper than recall we don't do a recall" sort of way.

HN (and other social media) is rife with this behavior/feedback loop.