Poor Article Quality

Comments in this cluster overwhelmingly criticize a specific Hacker News article for being poorly written, incoherent, nonsensical, and low-quality. Users express frustration at its front-page appearance without engaging its substantive content.

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Keywords

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Sample Comments

SwellJoe • Apr 28, 2008 • View on HN

So, that article is kinda crap.

AngrySkillzz • Nov 5, 2014 • View on HN

Wow, that article is pretty bad.

kordlessagain • Feb 25, 2021 • View on HN

It's a crappy article, so there's that.

puppetmaster3 • Dec 1, 2013 • View on HN

Wow, what a poorly reasoned article.

shervinafshar • Jan 22, 2014 • View on HN

Sounds just like a bad article to me.

gameswithgo • Feb 3, 2020 • View on HN

it isn't that, it is just a badly written article.

terra_t • Aug 19, 2010 • View on HN

That's an incoherent and muddled article, IMHO.

stephc_int13 • Nov 26, 2022 • View on HN

Messy and poorly written article, could not finish reading it.Unpleasant surprise to find this on HN.

rboes2 • Feb 19, 2020 • View on HN

Sorry this seemed like a terrible article to me. Pure bs.

simlevesque • Aug 29, 2014 • View on HN

That is one badly written article.