I agree with your point and find it quite disturbing myself. What punched me in my face in your article was that you asked people to comment on HN if they agreed. I quite honestly don't understand the reasoning behind this. Granted, I'm a new member on HN but asking for comments just for the sake of comments seems like broken Facebook "like"s.
Perhaps I phrased that incorrectly. Since Medium does not have a commenting system, I asked folks to leave a comment here, if they had one. Indeed, I was asking for everyone's comment, not just the ones that agreed with me. Thanks for pointing it out. Will remember to watch it next time.
