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	by FirmwareBurner 341 days ago
	>but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal. Unoriginal to who? What's unoriginal to you might be original to someone else. So your justification for flagging only reinforces the groupthink argument even if you don't realize it.

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While it's all subjective, other social networks are literally full of memes. Memes are unpopular on HN.

Better to have groupthink that is hostile to groupthink than to have memes.

I disagree. If a picture is worth more than a thousand words then a meme is worth more than a thousand groupthink slop comments.

I would explain why I think you're wrong, but I'm feeling lazy so please instead pretend that I just quoted you while posting a soyjack meme.

If you're replying with a meme, then how could I be wrong? You'd be proving me right.

It's a sort of demonstration of why you're wrong.

Low effort rants are not demonstrations of anything except lack of critical thinking

Let's say HN were full of edgy comments, memes and flame wars.

Some people would like that version of HN more, others less. I probably would close my account.

There might not be a version of this site that would please everybody.

>Let's say HN were full of edgy comments, memes and flame wars.

Ackshually, edgy meme websites with no moderation don't have any flame wars since everyone there is on the same page.

Flame wars are in places like HN where moderation is heavily one sided and arbitrary, while pretending to be objective and inclusive.

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