Of course I don’t have super great visibility, but the 4 above me in my line of report, I don’t see how they could disappear.
Feigning academic interest is nauseating by the way. You bring nothing to the conversation and demand other people do work until you reach some arbitrary level of satisfaction; even after doing the work you'd just disappear from the conversation and not have your opinion changed.
Searching through your comment history you've only offered citations or references a handful of times, despite having over 11,000 comments.
Practice what you preach.
And you're clearly conflating a user's karma with how many comments they have.
Cite your source (did you see it first hand? If so say that) or you're just spewing BS even if there's some truth to it.
No one needs citations to voice a commonly shared perspective or experience on an internet forum, get real.
My bad, he only has 3,300 comments. That definitely makes things so much better!
The only BS here are comments, like yours and his, not even remotely attempting to add anything useful to the conversation and attempting to pretend to have some higher standard while not even being able to adhere to it yourselves.
Hypocritical and uselessness in the same breath.
Thou shalt not disparage the overpaid, and underworked.
That sounds like an echo chamber, not something I usually associate with HN