[Afal]

Guide on how to Hacker News:

1. Look at the current popular articles in Hacker News and choose one.

2. Write short blogpost about it which could easily been a comment (but your opinion is much more important and deserves its own golden soapbox)

3. Post said golden soapbox on Hacker News.

4. Steps 1-3 are repeated by someone else posting a rebuttal to your blogpost.

[Confusion]

On the other hand, your complaint is a shining example of comments that add value to HN...