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This is a website where people post links and other people comment below them. Most front page discussions don't surpass 50 replies. I don't really think we should care so much about this place to the point that we're willing to employ state of the art data analysis tools just to read a blog post and see if someone has critiqued it in the comments

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This kind of stuff would probably just seed the sort of neuroticism that makes forums worse.

Yes, it is. And if you feel that way, that's fine. Why gatekeep?

What am I gatekeeping, exactly?

For starters, that you only want HN to be used the way you want to use it; which for sure it not the way I want to use it and more than likely significant number of other users too. If that’s not gatekeeping, then what is?

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