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It's grotesque to deny the possibility that you're part of one big not even beta-, but alpha-A/B/C../X/Y/Z-test.

That aside, are the countless threads about bloat, insecurity, technical debt in software here counterproductive, too? Because that's just the way 'commercial reality' created by entrenched players is?

tl;dr: please protect me from the severe cognitive dissonance these posts are causing me

Just don't click on the links.

Agreed. What's the point of these threads? It's just a bunch of people grinding axes. Over the last year, I've rarely seen anything other than misinformation and vitriol come out of them.

dang said this about moderation:

> The idea is not to maintain a centrist position, it's to try to keep the community from wrecking itself via ideological fracture.

These threads seem like a prime vector of ideological fracture. (And may result in people making poor medical decisions to boot.)

It’d be fine if the threads were centrist. The problem is with the lying, the FUD, the statements than run absolutely counter to factual truth. HN is going to be harmed by the people who do this, because they are going to go do the same thing in other threads. The quality of discourse on HN is going to suffer greatly.