Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449599 and marked it off-topic.

That's fair. Sorry for the distraction.

It's because for those who don't know better, you sound like a snobby hater. There are definitely redeeming qualities about JavaScript, but it's not beautiful. JavaScript is lacking and even with the ES6 improvements is still lacking.

Get over yourself. Some people agree and some people disagree. Replying to your own comment like this is just cringeworthy.

> Get over yourself.

Please don't be uncivil in comments here.

In fairness, my original comment was pretty uncivilized.

If I could edit it now, I would rephrase it to something more along the lines of "This blog post shows some pretty nice code you can write in ES6, but overall the new features in ES6 are deeply flawed etc. etc."

It's also against the HN guidelines.

Technically the guidelines only mention complaining about being downvoted. Crowing over upvotes appears to be permitted.

Personally I think the ability to anonymously downvote a comment is socially problematic, and it creates a climate in which long-term users (who can downvote) can appear to be more intolerant of dissenting voices than they probably are.

Sort of related, but possibly interesting... I've created a Chrome extension that completely removes all of the voting functionality and point tallies from my interface (except for being able to upvote threads on the main or new posts page). Including removing the lighter-grey of downvoted posts. I noticed long ago that I was allowing myself to be behavior-shaped through comment voting, and saw how it had impacted my own conversation and even thought processes. Had to do away with that as much as I could.

>Technically the guidelines only mention complaining about being downvoted. Crowing over upvotes appears to be permitted.

https://mind-exchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/thank-y...

The surest way to have wild karma swings up and down on a comment is to say something critical of the Javascript Orthodoxy.

Shhhhh. The feeliest of feels is the Javascript Community. But the entertainment is always top-notch.

Come on you guys. JavaScript is hardly the pinnacle of computing, but comments like these just make HN worse.

Here's how to deal constructively with the situation you deplore: post stories about things that are better. Then you'll help others learn and improve, even if only a minority do so.