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Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic by deltaonefour on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:59PM (#30351036)
The toxicity is there it's just subtle and disguised. Here's a typical one you see on HN that is used directly to escape moderation:

"I find it odd that even when someone tells you the logical outcome you still deny it."

"It's baffles me and is so interesting to see someone behave this way even though it's not logical."

It's this intellectual arrogance where the commenter acts like he's some sort of hyper intelligent savant observing creatures of lower intelligence that is completely toxic. Whenever I see that type of garbage comment, I think dude... the other person just disagrees with you stop talking about him like he's some animal your observing in a laboratory.

Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic by titzer on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:34PM (#30351485)
> It's this intellectual arrogance where the commenter acts like he's some sort of hyper intelligent savant observing creatures of lower intelligence that is completely toxic. Whenever I see that type of garbage comment, I think dude... the other person just disagrees with you stop talking about him like he's some animal your observing in a laboratory.

Enlightenment ensues when the meta loop is closed. All criticism winds back on itself, including this comment and the next comment commenting on it...they keep wrestling to get outside or on top of each other.

The singularity of meta-commentary is a deep belly laugh.