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I don't mean to cherry pick this comment as anecdotal evidence, but lately I have been disappointed at the quality of comments on ycombinator. This is comment is vacuous and emotional. Please take some time to back up your extraordinary claims, or else the level of discourse on this website will no doubt degrade to that of Reddit...

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IMO Constantly comparing comments on this site to those from reddit is dragging it down to the level of reddit.

> This is comment is vacuous and emotional.

Emotional? Vacuous? Why do you think so? It almost sounds like, in a Freudian slip kid of way, you are actually being self referential :).

> Please take some time to back up your extraordinary claims

It's hard to know what you mean by extraordinary. Care to elaborate?

The sentence means the same thing without the word extraordinary.

Surely you're not saying I need to provide sources for everything I say, even the most obvious, are you really that pedantic?

Surely you need to avoid the question you pretened to reply to.

I'm not avoiding anything, I just don't have the time to try and guess what I wrote the parent has a problem with and then source it all. If he would just clarify what his issues are, it would help. But instead all I seem to get are emotional tirades which never address my argument.

Ironic.

Your rashly posted vague and demeaning comments should point you to who is being emotional here.

"Please take some time to back up your claims"

fixed.

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