A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.
I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
I did not mean to have a comment that sits on top of the on-topic comments. If people upvote it so much that it does, it can mean something though. I would not call it bike shedding, it's a usability and security issue. I will always keep complaining about unnecessary Javascript requirements and especially about this specific design...
Maybe a "offtopic" or "noise" flag could be used for punishing comments like this (similarly to random comments that praise a submission without adding anything) so they float down but not into the grey negative score area?
I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.