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by throwanem 381 days ago
There is room for both. Of needless naysaying we could do with less, though.
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There really isn't because the boring stuff is easy to harumph about and tends to eat up entire posts. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161021

Without massive moderator intervention that whole submission would have been buried in cruft. Better to not start cruftalanches to begin with.

Well, fair enough, it'll take someone bolder than I to gainsay further in the face of that.