This is exactly what was going through my mind as I traversed what could be aptly described as a flamewar over the product announcement of the Next Protect alarm this morning and after being unable to find any under all of the people claiming to be experts are cooking without setting off their alarm and teaching people how to use existing alarms instead of talking about the device that the comments were supposed to be about.
I'm not saying these comments were off-topic, but they were very distracting to me.
Yeah i didn't expect a Flame War on HN. I have seen angry mobs (JustFab incident) and very whole hearted debates but they usually have some really nice points on both sides. This incident... well it was wrong. BUT that does not in any way mean that HN is wrong as a community to criticize products etc. That's called "peer review". And it's usually very productive on HN because the people here are really good at distilling through you pitches and analyzing what's good and what's bad about a product.
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I'm in the same boat as you.
This is exactly what was going through my mind as I traversed what could be aptly described as a flamewar over the product announcement of the Next Protect alarm this morning and after being unable to find any under all of the people claiming to be experts are cooking without setting off their alarm and teaching people how to use existing alarms instead of talking about the device that the comments were supposed to be about.
I'm not saying these comments were off-topic, but they were very distracting to me.
Yeah i didn't expect a Flame War on HN. I have seen angry mobs (JustFab incident) and very whole hearted debates but they usually have some really nice points on both sides. This incident... well it was wrong. BUT that does not in any way mean that HN is wrong as a community to criticize products etc. That's called "peer review". And it's usually very productive on HN because the people here are really good at distilling through you pitches and analyzing what's good and what's bad about a product.