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>>diablo+(OP)
I've noticed that moving the goalposts is extremely prevalent on HN, which makes for pretty frustrating conversations (or just reading). And then sometimes it's a tag team. E.g.:

Person A writes their comment. Person B1 offers a rebuttal. Personal A offers their response. Person B2 offers a second rebuttal that abandons the premise behind B1's rebuttal, and may actually be at odds with it. Person A ends up either deflated or looking defeated.

It's like the cross product of a Gish gallop and a DDoS.

>>cxr+Nv
This is especially frustrating when A's response is only within the context of B1's rebuttal, not A's full position. B2 then attacks the response as if it were A's full position.

I like the DDoS analogy...