<story><title>Official Hacker News T-Shirt</title><url>http://teespring.com/hntees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>I kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people launch new technology here.</text></item><item><author>jug6ernaut</author><text>I don&apos;t really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn&apos;t) &amp;#38; if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?&lt;p&gt;Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I mean no offense, and I realize that this is your site; but I really think jug6ernaut&apos;s comment added far more value than your response.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t think jug6ernaut missed the point whatsoever, and I wouldn&apos;t characterize him as nit-picking either: The question of who is expected to understand the t-shirt and what its point is (as compared to an unbranded t-shirt) are perfectly reasonable.  Personally I see nothing wrong with t-shirts which can only be understood by an &quot;in&quot; group, but that doesn&apos;t mean that there&apos;s anything wrong with asking if that was the intention.&lt;p&gt;Your reply, on the other hand, strikes me as exactly the sort of knee-jerk defensiveness which often makes me wish that submitters couldn&apos;t comment on their own posts: Not only did you fail to answer the question, but you implied that jug6ernaut was being unreasonable to even ask it.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s your site and you&apos;re entitled to encourage and discourage whichever types of posts you want -- but I think if your desire is to have a site where people engage in meaningful discussion, you made a poor choice here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Official Hacker News T-Shirt</title><url>http://teespring.com/hntees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>I kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people launch new technology here.</text></item><item><author>jug6ernaut</author><text>I don&apos;t really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn&apos;t) &amp;#38; if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?&lt;p&gt;Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shill</author><text>I read HN nitpicking posts in the voice of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why are you using American Apparel for a multi-threaded shirt and not Erlang?&quot;</text></comment>