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Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case

(arstechnica.com)
390 points AndrewDucker | 1 comments | 18 Dec 19 19:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.466s | source
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dang ◴[18 Dec 19 22:21 UTC] No.21830094[source]▶
This is an interesting story, but the thread so far is lame. Please do better. Low-threshold indignation makes for shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring discussion.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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jeromebaek ◴[18 Dec 19 23:02 UTC] No.21830380[source]▶
You are making a shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring low-threshold indignation against the commenters.
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1. dang ◴[19 Dec 19 06:38 UTC] No.21832546[source]▶
I wouldn't have said my comment was indignant (though I did say "lame"), but sure, shallow and generic it was—and off-topic too. For all that, moderation comments are needed here. They are out-of-band feedback signals which help the system regulate itself. Without them, the site would melt down into a hot core of indignation and fluff. We have a lot of experience with this, as does anyone who's been around the block on the internet.

If it helps at all, such comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....