Don’t forget that Disqus is also a major tracking service, not as prevalent as Facebook buttons but with more semi legitimate functionality so you lose more if you block it.

> It wouldn't be HN if there wasn't a comment pointing out why the whole project is useless.

It'd be great if you could point me to that comment, because I can't find it.

Strange comment? There wasn’t even mention of the project being useless.

If we're discussing semantics then you are correct, the literal word "useless" was never used, but it's obvious that the point of the comment is to state that there is -- in the end -- no need for this solution as more primitive solutions are already superior. This is a type of comment that is so common that it's a trope in itself, much more than the calling out of it is (as some here seems to argue).

It wouldn't be hacker news if there wasn't eventually a comment pointing out that there's always a comment pointing out <x>.

It's fascinating to see this happen on both HN and Reddit, quite often even before 'comment pointing out <x>' is even posted.

This phenomenon reminds me a bit of the annoying fallacy-fallacy, or how any discussion involving -isms (capitalism, socialism) cannot be had without either or both parties pre-emptively defending against being accused of, say, the no-true-scotsman fallacy.

I've been wondering if this is a 'new' thing, or if we've always been having these increasingly meta conversations, or if perhaps I'm just getting old and tired of it.

Or maybe it’s because of internet points? Do you also see it happen in real life?

In real life too.

Ha