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Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#31
A false dichotomy that segments typical replies into one of two groups.

Group 1: A thinly veiled straw man that buckets everyone I disagree with, along with an attempt to appear as if I'm being unbiased

Group 2: The group I put myself in and provide better arguments for why this perspective is correct.

Vague motte and bailey statement that gives me plausible deniability when someone criticizes my analysis.

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#32

A comment complaining this was obviously written by an AI, and the standard template is a tell. A philosophical observation about what that says about the state on online discourse. Link to the Dead Internet Wikipedia page.

This is why I built [AI slop tool]. [Self promotion link to my vibe coded startup with no users]

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#35
post #24

An opinion about the design of the website.

Link to HN guidelines with following quote pasted below:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

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

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#36

Tu caca, Derrida?

ramon156 12 minutes ago | unvote | prev | next [–] A niche reference almost no one gets, except one

An appreciative comment making the original niche poster feel seen.

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#37
Repeat the title 3 times in the first 3 lines then again as the start of the next paragraph.

Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with the early history of mathematics.

Re: A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

#40

> Cherry-picked quote from the article cut off too early Bad faith argument that could only be made by not reading further into the article or cutting the quote off before it answers the exact question/argument posed here.

Comment asking the previous commenter in a passive aggressive manner whether they had actually read the article, without providing any further context or counter to the argument made.
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