Reddit benefits from ankle deep snark, unlike HN.

True enough.

Having said that, some of my drive-by criticisms have lead to lengthy discussions, with or without my further participation. Probably mostly on older accounts I’ve abandoned.

Admittedly, this was not one of them.

I'm a sucker for drive by snark also - it mostly fails <shrug>.

As a netizen of forums across decades stretching back to pre-WWW Usenet days .. cheap shots in US centric Capitalism V Communism territory rank high as surely the least productive and least informative uses of ASCII :/

Still, points for being honest :)

Was it this account or one of my alts where I mentioned your handle always makes me think of Defrost Kelley (DeForest). I’ve always enjoyed reading your comments here.

I date back to Fidonet. Usenet less so.

As a lifelong conservative and capitalist, even I think this might be the thing that makes some form of socialism possible.

Yeah corporate socialism is working so well this time.