> I quit before I got to anything interesting

This is the kind of shallow dismissal we don't want on HN.

I think it exceeds that bar. If he had said "TLDR" and ended it there, sure but he approached it with humor and with a few quips I found relatively eloquent. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that.

He is humorously criticizing the author's artistic choices. I think he did it pleasantly enough, how else do we want this to be done on HN?

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n4r9 a day ago | parent | next [-]

In my opinion it's a shallow and tangential post. If you're going to comment on aesthetics over substance, at least caveat your comments with that and do it thoughtfully.

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stronglikedan a day ago | parent [-]

And here I am clicking dead comment links to read tangential posts. How about leave it like it is, where tangential posts can be hidded/flagged/killed but still available to those who want to read them. No one likes a gatekeeper.

	▲	n4r9 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'm fine with leaving it like it is and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just saying that a tangential post has a better chance of staying alive if it's thoughtful.

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pvg 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

criticizing the author's artistic choices.

There's no mention of 'artistic choices', it's just self-congratulation on one's personal choice to not-read. A perfectly valid choice but it's HN-offtopic since it's hard to square 'curious conversation' with 'trumpeting one's incuriosity'.

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jajko a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Is bored teenager approach "humorous" and "pleasant enough"? Not really, au contraire