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I mean this as honest feedback, and please don't take it as a personal attack, but I think you are being unreasonably critical of the comment, and I suggest you take time to consider why that is.

The comment raised an interesting way of thinking about the problem that many developers would not consider, and while it might have had a fair bit of religious zeal, that is very common here and not worthy of comments like "unbelievable waste of a comment" and "your comment should be deleted".

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Aye yai yai. Ya know, your response is part of the problem here. This may be a general shift in the way this site is going, and that may be fine, but what I expect from the comments in HN posts is far greater than what SFjulie1 posted. It's incoherent, off-topic, and filled with the anti-{%database%} mentality prevalent when something about MongoDB comes up.

    The comment raised an interesting way of thinking about the
    problem that many developers would not consider

Fantastic! Why can we not have an actual discussion about scaling MongoDB when the post is about scaling MongoDB! You want to have a conversation about different database engine solutions to the problem, go start a post about that. But this post was about MongoDB scaling. I may have been critical of the GP here, but you fail to appreciate the need and desire to keep HN to the level it should be.

The comment was not 'incoherent', to say so suggests that the actual points made no sense. Rather, the comment was simply written in poor English.

I think your comment only needed to be a polite "can we keep the conversation on the topic of MongoDB scaling" rather than a quite personal attack on the author.

Also, personally, I thought the main point raised about viewing the database choice from a business rather than development point of view was interesting and well worth discussion.

Why can we not have an actual discussion about scaling MongoDB when the post is about scaling MongoDB!

Because it might be more helpful to think about scaling your data needs than scaling with only a certain product.

Here's why: SFJulie1's comment came off as rambling and somewhat incoherent, if not a little childish and rude. In the past few hours one other account has popped up here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Ronaldo777 ) posting equally trollish comments in this same specific thread...

Just to give you an idea where SFJulie1 is coming from:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2pwkcl/help_nee...

I think mikegioia was perfectly reasonable in calling out this comment, it is trash and he was right to recognize it as such.

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