What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments? The headline allows for commenting about that subject.
For all you or I know, this story has most of its upvotes by people who want to talk about or read comments about Costco, not the story of the article.
> What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments?
I don't mind reading the comments without reading the story. I mind people writing comments without reading the story.
> most (...) want to talk about (...) Costco, not the story of the article.
And that is incredibly shallow. If I wanted to read senseless comments based on the title of an piece, I'd just prompt GPT-3 for random wikipedia entries.
GPT-3 comments of any kind would certainly be incredibly shallow. Comments from actual grown people are different, even if it’s just based off domain + headline + a possible skim.
Edit: I’m not sure senseless comments even correlate more with not reading an article.
Are you taking literally something that I wrote just for rhetorical effect?
Let me try in another way: I don't think that wading through tens of comments saying "I like/love/dislike Costco" or "I prefer Wegmans/Kirkland/whatever" is the type of thing that hits the mark for being a place that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
This would be for boring conversation already if the topic at hand was a discussion about retail stores, but it's made even worse because the post itself has so many more interesting things to be talked about, that engaging in this type of shallow talk becomes a nuisance to the ones that actually made just a bit of effort to read the piece and are ready for a more interesting conversation.
I was trying to make the point that not reading an article doesn’t mean shallow comment or a tendency for more shallow comments on its own.
I am a first generation person, but I didn’t find the article interesting. I skipped all comment threads about the story once I saw they were similarly uninteresting to me. I enjoyed the Costco comment threads. A Costco opened up near me this year so I care about that. I don’t begrudge the people commenting about the story though.
You want the site to revolve around your preferences. Not using a certain word doesn’t change the meaning and intent behind what you’re saying. A pretty shallow way of seeing things.
You appear to have a consistent attitude that you are not only always correct, but every one not like you is intellectually beneath you. You have been rude through this entire conversation putting people down.
I could have an identical conversation with any one on a Jordan Peterson thread. With every single one of those fans similarly believing in their own uniqueness and superiority. The smugness. None of them are shallow ofc either.
For all you or I know, this story has most of its upvotes by people who want to talk about or read comments about Costco, not the story of the article.