It appears you only care what a sizable portion of HN wants up to a point as they are the one's upvoting and downvoting the comments.
Agreed.
> It appears you only care what a sizable portion of HN wants up to a point as they are the one's upvoting and downvoting the comments.
Fair point, but in a flame war, HN runs a risk of having a one-sided discussion. Of course, some people believe that the losers in any particular forum should be silenced, because the majority view must be correct.
But to your point, if you can't convince someone of the value of your contribution then perhaps it just isn't valuable. Do you believe all opinions and expressions of those opinions are equally valuable and require equal advertisement?
I agree, and the oblique War Games reference is appreciated.
> Do you believe all opinions and expressions of those opinions are equally valuable and require equal advertisement?
(Who would believe such a thing? Well, I guess there was the FCC Fairness Doctrine, but fortunately that's gone.)
Of course not all opinions are equally valuable, but an echo chamber of people parroting the party line also has no value. In fact, that has negative value to me; I'd prefer a cacophony of divergent opinions to a single narrative.
I'd just like to see the top 10 or 20 comments instead of the top single comment.
Are you sure you're arguing about something that's an actual real problem here?
.. that is, consensus, at least in that particular forum. But losers still shouldn't be silenced.
The tone of "I see no reason.. limited value" seems a bit condescending to what appears to be a sizable portion of HN that values intelligent debate, and there can be no debate with only one viewpoint.