There's literally only one poster complaining about the new notepad UI (a brand new account).

It's as much of a meme to see the top post on an HN story is "OMG why are all the top posts such toxic whiners" and scroll down to not see any.

also for some reason, people really like to complain about HN as though it's a monolith even though a tiny percentage ever comment, let alone complain.

Also it's possible that two separate complainers have different things to complain about!

Preemptively calling complainers complainers helps quell complaints from fence sitters. It's PR.

Or maybe when I posted this initially there were 5 comments, all but one having a moan about the UI.

Nope, must be paid shills.

Whether or not you're paid PR, the act of preemptively complaining about complainers is PR.

As previously noted, 80% of the comments were negative when I posted it. I was reacting to the 'I hate change brigade' that got in early.

I mean, I don't even use Windows or any Microsoft devices. MacOS is vastly superior to Windows and Bill Gates sexually harassed women in the 90s (not that it factored into my operating system choice).

Real PR machine over here.

No, you're right, I shouldn't have suggested that. My apologies.

As if Hacker News is a single homogeneous unit