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		htk on July 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quiet Hacker News (2017) Every now and then I open the active[1] section looking for interesting discussions, run a scriptlet to remove greyed-out comments[2], and add to a TTS software on my phone to listen to. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/active [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20006310

blaser-waffle on July 22, 2019 [–]

Why delete the grayed out comments? Not trolling, am curious.

I feel like by skipping those you're just bowing to the will of the hive mind without knowing what the alternatives could be.

htk on July 22, 2019 | [–]

I'm aware that I do lose some gems and though provoking discussions, but IMHO the majority is uninformed/offtopic/poor-quality.

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