[antirez]

Hi 55pts, don't take me wrong I understand what you mean, but it is like to say that because I happen to contribute to some software that is popular I don't have the right to express freely my thoughts.

garbage here means: not very useful. More politically correct people are going to use a different word, but the concept is the same. DBs comparison / benchmarking is hard and I read many blog posts about people that apparently don't even have a solid understanding / experience with one of the systems (sometimes with both the compared ones), so this articles are really not going to help but to confuse other users.

[gbog]

Garbage means "shit", it never meant "not very useful".

You being Denis Ritchie's reincarnation or John Doe changes nothing to that, and to the fact that you have been disrespectful of someone else's work.

Personal opinion: on HN you have the right to be disrespectful of a work that is of mediocre quality (which is the case) if you provide the community with more details on why it is bad and how to improve, and, more importantly, if you do not deny being disrespectful just two posts below by changing on the fly the meaning of a word.

[antirez]

That's your opinion about how HN should look like, mine is different, more like that:

1) This kind of puritanism you express is not part of the hacking culture at all.

2) To compare two database systems that are the hard work of a lot of people, without a solid understanding, is the real problem here, because it means to spread shit to one or the other, and also to have an effect into potential users trying to understand what to use.

So I think that the only that should be worrying about their behavior is people posting incorrect stuff.

But because I trust in freedom I don't want to prevent them from posting with some kind of pre-post filter. Nor you should try to prevent me to say this kind of blog posts are often garbage.