I'm liking this community less and less each day. When this sort of comment on this sort of article is the top comment something is wrong. For some reason I don't seem to be able to vote that comment down either.
My comment was just that; a comment. What would be worth voting down would be the original /article/ for making such a statement, rather than an observation that the statement was made.
I must agree with you, however, that I cannot figure out why my flippant observation got voted up, but this is not the fault of the comment.
Fair enough. I've seen a lot of quite innocent but flippant comments absolutely hammered before so it stands out that this was the top one. I thought your statement tended to agree with the original one but maybe that isn't the case. What ever the case I'm seeing an increasing amount of groupthink creaping into hacker news and it isn't pleasant.
I wasn't very clear, but my comment was more trying to highlight that political correctness is the enemy of potent, memorable communication. The article was not suggesting or presenting anything particularly interesting, but seemed to have been modded up because of its potency. Perhaps this is also what happened to my comment!
On your topic, however, I agree that it would be sad to see a Slashdot-esque consistency to opinion on here, but I consider it an inevitability. When it takes over, yet another site will become our refuge :)
