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by tsally 6099 days ago
That's a dumb reason to vote up an article. If I submitted the man page of vim, would you upvote it? The man page is actually more useful than this blog post.

It's not about the subject, it's about the content.

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Right, voting up articles because you like them means that the front page will tend to get clogged with "woo $thing, vote this up if you like $thing too" type articles, which are almost always very shallow AND encourage other such banality.

There are still interesting discussions to be had about multiple-decade-old text editors, but this is not one of them.