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>>apsec1+(OP)
>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

I don't understand how those two sentences are related. I've never heard a political or ideological battle explained as being "curiosity destroying".

>>x86_64+V2
Because whenever there's a battle in the comments, it drowns out all the interesting comments and makes it hard for anyone curious about the subject to see the interesting points of view.

As a quick heuristic, if there are more than 150 comments, there's a high probability that it's descended into either an ideological battle, or an obtuse snark-fest over semantics or edge cases.