&gt; I find the seemingly obligatory condemnation of him to be tiresome too.<p>It is indeed totally boring.  In fact this whole thread that happens every time anyone posts anything by Wolfram is very dull.<p>I would say that I do get some value from seeing a rough inappropriate sales pitch : interesting information ratio on posts (not just Wolframs), and it is one of the reasons I frequently visit the comments before going to the page.  HN can be susceptible to front page links that have poor ratios.<p>Still, I&#x27;m not sure how we can get that benefit without these terminally dull threads of condemnation and counter condemnation.  Really I&#x27;d just like a bot to figure out the ratio and display it next to the link.  Sounds like a hard problem.