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> this is the Internet,

The Internet is a big place. If you want YouTube comments ("Lol yuo dikk yo mama haet you die of cancer!!1!" you can go to youtube.

> at least it's one in which it's possible for any participant, big or small, to improve the discussion

Yes. Let's keep working at making HN better.

Comments like this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731152) should be vigorously downvoted.

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In the same vain, why do we have random blog posts on hn. If you wanna blog, take it to a blog. If you wanna show off some tech or code, bring it to hn.

EDIT: I'm not just talking about this specific post, I don't really care when linus yells at somebody in a mailing list etc. If it's some opinion piece or fluff piece I just don't really get why it's here.

> If it's some opinion piece or fluff piece I just don't really get why it's here.

Perhaps because a subset of people find it interesting/enforces their opinions/serves as ammunation against what they dislike/etc etc ..

It might be hard to prevent.

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