[bgruber]

This just shows what a couple thousand mobilized, highly motivated geeks can do in six hours. HN is solely responsible for this. Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China. Or the massacres going on in Syria, for that matter. Something more important than whether that elephant-murdering bastard is a 99%, or a 100% asshole.

this.

[noduerme]

Was "this" an ironic single syllable, or something more profound? Where are we going with "this"?

[bgruber]

Unsurprisingly, I have failed at googling up some other examples, but in recent years it has become common (at least in my circles) to use the word "this" as short hand for, roughly, "this thing here is something which is important/i agree with."

I wrote my comment, rather than simply upvoting yours (the parent), because the parent contained several other points which I either don't agree with, or which I thought clouded the message of the part I quoted. In short, I wished to emphasize that one part of your comment.