Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and especially not putdowns.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully. If not, please don't comment until you do.

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

I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective.

Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? explains a lot TBH

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danielbln 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is no value in a single poster saying "it's bad". I don't know this person, there is zero context on why I should care that this user thinks it's bad. Unless they state why they think it's bad, it adds nothing to the conversation and is just noise

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dang 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HN is by no means "pro-AI". It's sharply divided, and (as always with these things) each side assumes the other side is dominant.

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FergusArgyll 3 days ago | parent [-]

"After viewing identical samples of major network television coverage of the Beirut massacre, both pro-Israeli and pro-Arab partisans rated these programs, and those responsible for them, as being biased against their side."

https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/965/hwang.pdf

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h4ch1 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think this comment would be a little better by specifying WHY it's bad instead of just a "it's bad" like it's a Twitter thread.

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LaGrange 4 days ago | parent [-]

The subject is pretty exhausted. The reason I post "it's bad" because, honestly, expending on it just feels like a waste of time and energy. The point is demonstrating that this _isn't_ a consensus, and not much more than that.

Edit: bonus points if this gets me banned.

	▲	dang 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		(We don't ban people for posting like this!) If it felt like a waste of time and energy to post something substantive, rather than the GP comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998577), then you should have just posted nothing. That comment was obviously neither substantive nor thoughtful. This is hardly a borderline call! We want substantive, thoughtful comments from people who do have the time and energy to contribute them. Btw, to avoid a misunderstanding that sometimes shows up: it's fine for comments to be critical; that is, it's possible to be substantive, thoughtful, and critical all at the same time. For example, I skimmed through your account's most recent comments and saw several of that kind, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299479 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882357. If your GP comment had been like that, it would have been fine; you don't have to like Claude Code (or whatever the $thing is).

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exe34 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

that wasn't a negative comment though. a negative comment would explain what they didn't like about it. this was the digital equivalent of flytipping.