This is your veto-proof Democrat Monopoly over California politics.
Democrats value people over corporations!
Keep resisting.
Democrats value people over corporations!
Keep resisting.
AFAICT, the post contains hyperbole, but its main thesis seems worth discussing. Even if it's just to conclusively refute it.
In case it's helpful: people sometimes think that we enforce this standard because we're uncomfortable with intensity and only want (say) a nice and civil bourgeois discussion. And they make legitimate objections to constraining discussion for this reason. But it isn't our reason at all. Rather, it's because of the systemic effects such comments have on a large public forum like HN. Experience teaches that they lead rapidly to lower-quality threads, in which people drop thoughtfulness, start to yell, and eventually just try to blast and hurt each other. Since the whole point of HN is to try to sustain a higher quality level on the internet, we have to moderate such comments rigorously.
So when we moderate HN, we're not thinking so much of the specific comment we're replying to, but what that type of comment leads to. I don't usually explain this because, as you can see from this post here, it takes too long.
Wouldn't the solution for this type of problem be to write it down only once and thoroughly in a blog post, and then refer to it? Or a number of posts, and you only post the pointer.
I've had that idea in general for public forums, that there should be one thoroughly explained list of aspects and view points, and when there is a problem with a post you simply moderate it with "That is a #42".
I do sometimes link to previous HN comments, but only ad hoc. And I have to remember things in order to link to them, which prevents it from getting totally static.