They add nothing, meaningless anecdotes. I was kind of riffing on that.

Posting meaningless comments isn’t suddenly useful because you’re aware of it and “riffing on that”.

And now you've added to the pile, congratulations.

So you added BS, on purpose? There is nothing meaningless about anecdotes. The plural is data

Every metric becomes a target (Goodhart's law). Also, the plural of anecdote is not data.

The subjective anecdotes from HN users matter because they are not data and are much harder to game. Not impossible to game, always be aware of users with low karma, but more difficult than gaming a benchmark.

But they’re not at all meaningful after a certain point, because they’re not even attempting to explain why it works well for them. It’s just noise like this.

If somebody gives a longer explanation of why they like or dislike it that would just be more noise it doesn't really matter that much beyond their general opinion about it

Yeah come on, if these endless dialectic statements get made, at least post more detailed information about how your position was attained.