What motivates someone to make a new account just for this kind of mundane and inappropriately rude comment? Why should anyone answer you?

So what you’re implying is that arguments are only valid coming from old accounts? Good to know. I guess HN really is turning into reddit, isn’t it?

"Hey I'm a complete nobody and I'm also really rude, please answer my questions" is not a winning play, nor is the rest of this dumb bait you're trying.

That's always how HN has been. That's why some accounts have green names.

> What motivates someone to make a new account just for this kind of mundane and inappropriately rude comment?

Mental illnesses, fear, lack of trust, hatred for HN having a simplistic and prone-to-abuse account registration system, or being a complete asshat.. the list goes on.

I wasn't talking to you, four minute old account.

You didn’t mention anyone by name and this is an open forum, 19 year old account. Weird that such a basic premise escapes you with a near two decade old account.

I don't need to name anyone, I defined the term. If you're a real nerd (by my definition, given in my comment), you will know the kind of person I have in mind, both for whom I think highly of and those I think little of.

you’re correct. unfortunately the type of people on hacker news these days are more interested in feeling self righteous than actually being correct. i think when Twitter was taken over it really shook a lot of them, so they seek refuge anywhere they can. open debate is what they fear the most, so the best route for them to avoid any risk of severe cognitive dissonance is to close off discussion and make “i’m correct and you’re wrong” the starting point. and yes to be specific i’m mostly talking about leftists