This warrants the black bar.
He has changed everything for humanity time and again. We owe him the best future we can possibly make.
He has changed everything for humanity time and again. We owe him the best future we can possibly make.
Thankfully, the black bar is not there, perhaps previous discussions made them reconsider.
I consider no black bar:
- a violation of the principle of least surprise
- a statement of discrimination
Precedent has been set by the fact that it has been used in the past.
If its usage is being wound down, I reckon this more than qualifies as exceptionally justifiable.
All of this sad nonsense over a stylesheet tweak that in the end means nothing and honors no one and whose application has always been entirely arbitrary. It's a distraction which is best done away with IMHO.
People die all the time ... according to Wikipedia, about 105,000 per day, every day... yet I would bet those deaths don't distract you at all, if they did, you would be spending your life in a corner paralyzed with fear.
Life is for the living, life is not for the dead.
>People getting hurt and distracted over who gets a black bar or not is better than nothing at all IMO.
Better at what? At reminding people of their own mortality? Better than the thread itself, or the posted obituary, or the experience of merely living as a human being? Nonsense.
This post has just disrupted the previous HN top post of all time.
I would have used the black bar this time around.
However, as it's such a source of contention, I can see not using it on this post, to set precedent for not using it.
Incidentally my last account (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=i336_) ended up closed on this issue (you'll need showdead turned on to see its last comments). By "closed" I mean I said "okay I need a break" and set noprocrast to a high number due to there being no documentation about what the number represented (I thought it meant seconds, learned the hard way it meant hours!).