[fridek]

I've got to admire Mason's chill in actually giving concrete replies to what are mostly ad-hominem attacks around this issue.

[lelandfe]

I dunno, my snarkometer is going off.

> Thanks for raising these 6 examples of sites publishing XML files. We can add it to the existing list of 357 sites

This feels like an email I'd get from HR. The point of the topic was the ease in finding those 6, not to discuss those 6 specifically. Maybe being direct pisses people off more than this corporate-styled language, though.

[otterley]

I think he's responding to the fact that someone felt the need to create a new issue instead of attaching the information to the existing issue. It makes managing the work more difficult.

[doctorpangloss]

You’re saying a nice guy, who is not obligated to engage and chooses to, is not allowed to mock an intellectually dishonest issue?

[shortstuffsushi]

No kidding, the entire thread seems to be "you don't know what you're doing and you haven't done any research," in the face of responses saying "correct, this is the beginning of the process, where we do the research."

Then some random tag on guy presumably after this hit HN "I like that it doesn't have ads," which has literally nothing to do with the issue, lol.