[pololeono]

This manifestation of the threes trope below everything 2048 related reminds me of a comment I recently read below a Stephen Wolfram related post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406645

All: please don't repeat the usual Wolfram trope. (If you don't know what I mean by that, a decade's worth of explanation can be found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....) The issue is not that it's wrong, it's that it's extremely repetitive and we want fresh discussion on HN, preferably about the specific content of an article.

[samatman]

I saw that comment but didn't follow the algolia link.

I didn't realize Stephen Wolfram was dang's personal We Do Not Mention the Orangutan. I suppose that given the inevitable prevalence of clichéd back-and-forth tropes and exchanges on HN, there's little choice but to draw a line in the sand on specific versions and hope it serves as a stand-in for all of them.

[dang]

I don't know who the orangutan is, but that's just one of a thwack of tropes that make me wince on HN. A multithwack. A plenithwack.

They can't be stopped but one can maybe dampen them a bit sometimes. Or not.