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Could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them in the future? Comments like this manage to break several of them, such as:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Eschew flamebait."

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


Dang, I appreciate that moderation is used sparingly and your resources are always stretched, my appologies.

These articles slagging off web3 / crypto are appearing front page every 2-3 days at the moment and the comments section always becomes a shitshow. In a recent comment section for ~140 comments there were over 30 mentions of "ponzi"

WRT to my comment, yes agreed it breaks the rules and probably could have gone unspoken. But it is born of frustraition in seeing AWS being touted by people that haven't either bothered to understand the technology but want to fling mud.

This constant echo chamber HN is engaging in is making it less of a place for discussing intellectual ideas and more about pushing viewpoints.

Once again, appologies for lowering the bar.


I know the internet (including HN) supplies endless frustration, but just because of that, we all need to cultivate the skill of not responding from a triggered place. Comments like the GP and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525651 definitely just make things worse.

Put another way: users here need to follow the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) regardless of what other people are doing. It always feels like the others both (a) started it, and (b) are doing worse—that's just baked in to human perception—so we can't use that as a basis for commenting. If we do, a downward spiral is the guaranteed result (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...).


But that's a reality I can believe in.

Some large actors dominating the market and with that come regulations (AML/KYC), laws and borders and in the end it's like the traditional financial system with a VM and JavaScript instead of COBOL.

Whether that has any practical benefits to regular people remains to be seen. Perhaps, Perhaps not.




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