[ZoFreX]

> Zap all the thousands of aggregator comments complaining about fonts/background-colours and nothing of value would be lost.

Sure, if you don't have a visual impairment. I do, and even though it's a very mild one, if one in 100 blog posts submitted to HN consider changing their colour scheme due to people complaining about it I would say it is worth it. And frequently I do see people changing their colour schemes based on HN feedback.

[frou_dh]

The point is: take it to the author, not those standing around you on the bus.

[Pacabel]

Nonsense. The message is a good one for everyone to hear. It's not a mistake specific to one specific author. It's a mistake commonly made by lots of people, and so the more awareness there is of how to avoid the mistake, the better.

[frou_dh]

I simply disagree. Internet commenters in general are on red alert looking for any little thing to complain about. So many of these complaints are not worth clogging the tubes with or necessarily even valid at all.

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