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This smells a bit like linkbait to me (and amusingly similar to some of the items in the 4chan parody not so long ago.)

I think this would be better as a blacklist. I definitely don't find as much abuse as is claimed, but it does happen occasionally.

I don't want to return to a world where I have to refresh my email window to receive new email, or a world where collaborative google docs aren't possible or the whole plethora of awesome stuff javascript has enabled - you can't get that useful stuff without it being abusable, that power can be used for good or bad.

I think the delays in loading sites is also overstated, yes on poorly designed sites, but e.g. my home page which is angular-based loads very quickly, and one of the benefit of doing things on the client-side is that you can cache more and only transmit the data the client-side app needs to use, dynamically.

Blacklisting, not whitelist solves this problem, my friend.

[tommorris]

"Linkbait". I wrote a post on my own fucking blog on Friday. I was quite drunk at the time after a long week of working on web stuff.

Then someone else posted it on Hacker News.

Any chance I could write stuff on my personal blog in the future without being accused of clickbaiting or linkbaiting or whatever?

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Actually - "This smells a bit like linkbait to me"

I don't think that quite qualifies as personally accusing you of intentionally posting linkbait to HN.

There are plenty of articles submitted here by people who aren't the author that are in fact intentionally linkbait. I don't know where else you advertised this post, etc. so you not having posted it doesn't mean it wasn't linkbait (I believe you that it wasn't, fine.)

So even though it was you venting after a[n inferred] tough week, then the submitter might have intended it as clickbait for karma purposes. So I didn't actually necessarily direct that comment at you.

Also keep in mind if you write on a public blog, there's always the possibility that people will express an opinion you find disagreeable somewhere about it, probably less politely elsewhere (especially in the flamebait-attracting area of programming languages.)

If I wrote a blog post, entirely for myself entitled 'why I despise Windows 7 and wish we could go back to the wonder days of ME', I wouldn't be surprised if it resulted in people suggesting it was linkbait if it was later posted to a news site (other than it was getting attention, of course :)

Having said all that I should apologise, I didn't mean it as a personal attack (though I do, respectfully, disagree with your article), as usual text is a dreadful medium for expressing these things.