Making HN worse while criticizing it seems incongruent and doesn't help anything. We've banned that account (an obvious troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ijiiijji1). Meanwhile this other offtopicness just adds noise, and supercilious noise to boot. If you're going to judge a site by the trolls it gets, every site is worthless.
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Making HN worse while criticizing it seems incongruent and doesn't help anything. We've banned that account (an obvious troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ijiiijji1). Meanwhile this other offtopicness just adds noise, and supercilious noise to boot. If you're going to judge a site by the trolls it gets, every site is worthless.