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I never ceases to fascinate me how taboo meta discussions of HN are. We tolerate all kinds of topics, but this one almost everyone viscerally hates. It is as if everyone takes it as a personal insult on their tastes. Odd.

i don't mind meta discussion when it's constructive, such as voting, dealing with spam, backend code updates, etc.

but the OP chose to complain about links he didn't like on his page by adding his own link that many others now have on their pages that they don't like.

I disagree.

I don't read it as people being insulted but more so that they see meta discussions as distracting from the more valuable function of HN.

Also, this topic reminded me of this post:

"Meta is a social problem, period. It's applicable to everything you do in life."

(Source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html)

IMHO Metafilter shows the way here (as usual)-- putting meta-discussion in its own little silo keeps it from annoying the people who don't care.

So is this a meta meta discussion?

Note that most of the links you clicked on were not ones that I marked.

Ignoring your opinion per se for a minute, I feel you could have chosen a less snide way of expressing it.

you just added to the noise

pot, kettle

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Entirely agree. I flag such submissions.