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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by DanBC on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:21AM (#14611394)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236332#9238739

> A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.

> I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.

Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by zeveb on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:28AM (#14612907)
Yet another example of the mods contributing to the downfall of HN. I strenuously disagree with dang here (as a cursory look at my own comment history will indicate).

The ongoing destruction of the Web is something which all of us, particularly the start-up community, should fight.