So many of the top comments on HN posts are complaints about website functionality rather than the content of the site. I'm all for not breaking standards but sometimes it gets old when the top content is a negative content about the use of javascript or ux. Bracing for downvotes
> A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.
> I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
Agreed, I’m going to start flagging such comments because they really harm the quality of discussion. If I lose my flagging privileges as a result, so be it.