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Why are the top comments in this thread all personal anecdotes? Is this reddit now?

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Since when is it wrong for people who have personal experience with a topic to share personal anecdotes? And what does Reddit have to do with it?

I was under the impression that hacker news was not a place for sharing personal anecdotes, but rather a place for factual debate.