[throwaway675309]

If that's true, then you're only exacerbating it by attacking "said thread".

Furthermore, threads raising the issue of googles seemingly erratic depredation of their products and threads discussing the product itself aren't mutually exclusive. You can do this neat thing called scroll down, and not read these threads if they bother you so much.

[vogon_laureate]

That's the thing I don't get. Why don't people just ignore the comments they don't like and don't want to boost? Feels like some kind of Stack Overflow-esque over-persnickety moderation syndrome.