Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p...
by inopinatus on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:54PM
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I've majored for years in cracking jokes on Hacker News; often a hazardous undertaking given the capricious and judgemental denizens of this forum. And yet comments whose kernel or allusions contain a mode of wit or wry observation have supplied roughly one third of the aggregate approbation tally, for what that's worth (which is, admittedly, very little, but remains nevertheless a useful guide to one's welcome).
What's curious is that many folks claim the subthreads of their comment as a personal fiefdom, taking umbrage at any remark they deem unworthy of the continuation, the self-appointed gatekeepers of repartee.
Specifically, though, I don't think this is a valid complaint:
> there really isn't any need to explain this to me
since it follows from:
> how does anything you wrote relate to anything I wrote?
which is, rhetorical or otherwise, and notwithstanding the pilgarlic territoriality, a clear request for an explanation, which rob74 has elegantly supplied, and to which I'd append only one additional observation, viz. that the image is a plant
What's curious is that many folks claim the subthreads of their comment as a personal fiefdom, taking umbrage at any remark they deem unworthy of the continuation, the self-appointed gatekeepers of repartee.
Specifically, though, I don't think this is a valid complaint:
> there really isn't any need to explain this to me
since it follows from:
> how does anything you wrote relate to anything I wrote?
which is, rhetorical or otherwise, and notwithstanding the pilgarlic territoriality, a clear request for an explanation, which rob74 has elegantly supplied, and to which I'd append only one additional observation, viz. that the image is a plant