[tajen]

> There seems to be an awful lot of gratuitous negativity going on here.

There isn't much negativity above your comment, no-one above you has criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA. Were you referring to a specific comment without using the reply-to feature? Are you saying the HN community is "mean" about it?

Most people on HN are very positive even if the project is slow, because everyone knows what it means to be on the top page of HN.

[DanBC]

Did you see this post and thread, asking HN to avoid gratuitous negativity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916

[tajen]

I'm not sure why my comment seems negative to you, while the comment above doesn't. The person above was generalizing negatively about "the people here", and it seemed gratuitous because no-one had criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA before.

In other words, please hellban me now, because I didn't get what was negative in my first comment.

[DanBC]

I'm not sure why you think I am critcising you. Parent post is talking about gratuitous negativity, and I wanted to make sure you understood what they meant by gratuitous negativity which, in the context of HN, has a specific meaning.

I don't have any power to hellban you!