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Could I implore you to please stop breaking the site guidelines? I don't have the energy to even list all the times we've asked you already.

I don't want to ban you, but you're making it increasingly difficult not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ah yes, but front-paging a headline that implies colleagues at YouTube are blind, that establishes a tone of reasoned civil discourse?

Pointing the finger at others isn't helpful.

You have a history of abusing HN and we need you to stop doing that. You also have a history of posting good things, which is why I'd prefer not to ban you.

Perhaps the incentives of said UX team don't align with those of the user. They might be optimizing for maximal time spent on the site, for instance.

Yup, and that's what I meant by them turning the pain dial all the way towards money. Presumably they can run A/B tests and will no doubt be able to prove that this change makes them $X more money (since it's 1/6 a full screen ad after all). At the cost of being a miserable tasteless change.

The YouTube team has been blindly chasing monetization at the expense of their website being useful and pleasant for a while now. Unfortunately it seems they can get away with it. I wrote this post to just shake my fist at the cloud

I’m going to take up smoking because Philip Morris says I should.

Microsoft's adware and spyware was designed by one of the wealthiest companies in the world, so it's good for you. Google's ad business is the most sophisticated on the planet, so their spying and tracking and reporting your location to the government is good for you, you're just too dumb to understand. The USA, one of the most powerful and advanced countries in the world has suspended FDA testing of dairy. Since you can't possibly know better, this must be a good thing.

This is called "appeal to authority" and it's a pretty unintelligent logical fallacy. Do better next time. Maybe read a book or two?

>This is called "appeal to authority" and it's a pretty unintelligent logical fallacy. Do better next time. Maybe read a book or two?

This is called ad hominem, and has no place here.

It's only ad hominem when the argument is an insult.

In this case there's an insult inside the argument, but importantly the insult is not the argument being made. Therefore it is not ad hominem.

The overall point, as you obviously understand, is that one should avoid personal insults when making a comment here.

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