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"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No doubt many of us agree with you, but this is not the kind of comment that should be stuck at the top of a thread, choking out more specific and interesting conversation.

Generic-indignant comments always get heavily upvoted, which is a failure mode of the upvoting system (and perhaps the human brain, who knows).