Please don't be rude in comments here, and please don't pile on.
digitaltrees' reply gives vmception a nice invitation to expand, which would benefit all of us. Swipes like the one in your comment unfortunately have the opposite effect on conversation.
Hard to know exactly what you mean, but you might be misreading our intent here. The intention is to optimize the site for curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... We've learned a lot about how to do that over the years. Swipes lead to flames, flames tend to spread, and that whole approach to internet discussion is definitely not good for curiosity.
digitaltrees' reply gives vmception a nice invitation to expand, which would benefit all of us. Swipes like the one in your comment unfortunately have the opposite effect on conversation.
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