Re:Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative
by mercer on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @06:22AM
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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.
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.