The thread may have looked different earlier, but the comment in question is dead so it has essentially been eliminated by the HN community and not shown unless you are logged in with a non-default option set. The overall HN response seems to have been mostly supportive of Dr. B?
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The obviously completely wrong comments don't bother me (everyone can tell those are wrong), but a pet peeve of mine are the people who are credible who feel like they have to comment on everything. There are three or four people like this. Why!? It's a waste of everyone's time.
When they comment on topics I know about, the comments are very wrong (but not obviously so to a lay person). I'm guessing they're no different on topics I don't know about outside of their expertise. This is one of the two main reasons I don't read a lot of HN comments anymore.
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Definitely. The same suspects turn up on regular expression threads and talk about regular expression derivatives *every* *single* *time*. They don't have experience building this stuff, but they've read a couple papers or blog posts and just want to show that off.
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I'd love a forum where experts deleted bogus comments, like r/askhistorians but for tech. One funny side effect of that moderation policy is, if you visit a popular discussion a week or two afterwards, 80% to 100% of comments will be deleted.
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