I appreciate a good rant in certain contexts, but this is not the place for it.
That's not an ethical point, btw—it's about the dynamics of different genres (or if you like, the McLuhan point about the medium dominating the message). The format of the large, flat internet forum is not able to sustain comments like what you posted here. Even if 99.99% of the audience has no problem with the rant, the other 0.01% is enough to completely destroy the thread if triggered—and believe me, someone is going to get triggered.
That's not an ethical point, btw—it's about the dynamics of different genres (or if you like, the McLuhan point about the medium dominating the message). The format of the large, flat internet forum is not able to sustain comments like what you posted here. Even if 99.99% of the audience has no problem with the rant, the other 0.01% is enough to completely destroy the thread if triggered—and believe me, someone is going to get triggered.
The downside of trying to operate a forum like HN, along the principles outlined in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, is that we're all subject to a certain blandness.
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