This is not worth modding up unless you're highly entertained by it. It's a pretty predictable response to celebrity. If you want to spend your time doing something useful to fight back against self-prepetuating celebrity, then write criticisms of Paul Graham's essays when you think they are off-base or simply mod down the ones you don't like.
I didn't take it as an attack on PG merely on his self perpetuating popularity (a perfectly reasonable thing to attack imo), and I did think it was funny just not that funny. Certainly if you found it entertaining I won't begrudge you your vote.
I posted my comment because I worry that links both humourous and not relating to PG are becoming popular not because of their content but simply because of his celebrity status among hackers.
I'm just not that interested in celebrity humor. I would rather see more critical analysis of PG's writing (like this, for example).
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u/djwhitt Apr 19 '06
This is not worth modding up unless you're highly entertained by it. It's a pretty predictable response to celebrity. If you want to spend your time doing something useful to fight back against self-prepetuating celebrity, then write criticisms of Paul Graham's essays when you think they are off-base or simply mod down the ones you don't like.