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It seems strange to interrogate why someone thanked someone else, doesn't it? Are you trying to start a fight with them over a simple acknowledgement that they agree?

>>Tadpol+(OP)
If every HN was full of thank you posts, it would be unreadable. Upvotes exist. I prefer comments to add to the discussion, so I don’t find the users request for more information to be that baffling. Their comment was at least trying to further their understanding, which is more than sillysaurx did.

>>nickth+na
Then vote and/or report? They aren't trying to further their understanding, that much is clear when their dialogue started by saying anyone who holds a different ideological position is a grifter. They're trying to start a fight with a bystander who supported the "other".

>>nickth+na
I’ve been on HN since the beginning. pg himself said that thank yous are fine. Empty but positive comments are not harmful.

I’ll leave my gratitude a mystery. They have my thanks, and my axe.