>(This is in fact sarcasm before you get too eager with that down arrow)

I see this defense quite a lot on the internet, and I think it's misplaced. Even without your comment, I would have downvoted you, not because I though you were in earnest, but because your sarcastic comment doesn't add anything to the conversation.

I think it adds a lot to the conversation. It's an obviously poor argument, which points out how poor it is when Mozilla uses it to make obviously poor choices.

Technically, your comment doesn't add much to the conversation either.

I agree that my comment is of extremely limited value. Usually I just down vote and move on for that very reason. Today I chose to explain why instead.

The difference is that I believe that my comment has a very small positive value, while I believe that the comment I responded to has a small to moderate negative value.

If you believe that your comment adds value, then so must the parent comment. If that’s true then your comment is false and adds no value.

Quite paradoxical.

IMO, without sarcasm, people, not browsers makers, should ditch modern "web" to came back to local application with networking enabled.

We need to regain control of our systems and data before being all slave (without even the need of a strong power) of few corporations...

and yet here you are

Yep, since most people forget nntp... But I'm here not elsewhere and I'm receive HN updates via mail (RSS2Email) and planning to try my first Emacs serious work with a modification of HN plugin to allow posts not only view...