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> I know I'll get napalmed for saying this, but why is this all over HN?

Because the DAO's failure is interesting.

And funny!

A number of internet forums have branched off from HN to fill niches that HN doesn't fill. I'm beginning to think that somebody needs to fork a forum for Schadenfreude. We don't want comments like this here.

Looking at your comments- it seems like for all of your karma, you generate a lot of content on HN that is strictly policing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

Just imagine if you will if all members of the site created similar comments constantly. That would hide all of the discussion relevant to the topics being discussed.

But, I agree with what you said- I don't like it when people enjoy suffering either. I just think that possibly the best way to handle it would be to just ignore those posts, as you might elicit more response from them.

dang is a moderator of HN.

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