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ThrustVectoring · 2017-05-03 19:56:20+00:00

The guidelines don't matter if enforcement, non-enforcement, and target selection isn't audited for compliance. Give me a clear and fair guideline and an agenda to push / person to punish, and they'll get suppressed.

francisofascii | karma 2483 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2018-12-19 18:28:41+00:00

There is no need to state obvious guidelines, until the obvious guidelines are broken.

ubernostrum | karma 12994 | avg karma 2.82 · | 2016-12-07 03:26:58+00:00

They're called "guidelines", not rules.

lmm | karma 42440 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2015-01-02 21:55:29+00:00

Then please violate and/or change the guidelines.

m-j-fox | karma 297 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2017-07-29 18:12:32+00:00

You wrote guidelines! (But still the only way to find out about them is to violate a few. Ex post facto.)

hanniabu | karma 4817 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2019-12-31 23:00:19+00:00

While I respect the guidelines, we shouldn't be suppressing awareness and dirty tactics

MichaelZuo | karma 3522 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2022-08-11 17:57:22

You’ve linked to guidelines that do not have the force of law behind them.

metadat | karma 19104 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2022-07-01 22:28:07

Which guidelines, can you elaborate? Seems odd, especially considering the other low-effort comment you left in this thread (consisting only of the word "No").

icebraining | karma 48925 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2018-05-04 07:00:32

Oh, ok, I didn't know that, thanks. Enforcing guidelines seems a bit like a contradiction in terms :)

happytoexplain | karma 7818 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2021-07-07 12:25:03

I don't see how that intention justifies violating the guideline.

Smaug123 | karma 6343 | avg karma 4.01 · | 2024-05-18 11:54:13

Come now, you can have guidelines that aren't enforceable but which you expect people to adhere to. After all, you asked them to adhere to them, and they're (hopefully) not arseholes.

chownie | karma 962 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2023-10-26 08:09:38

As far as I can tell there's nothing in the guidelines telling us not to mention them when someone's plainly in violation.

Plus I did actually include a refutation, which you've then ignored to make this complaint.

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dreyfiz | karma 682 | avg karma 3.73 · | 2010-02-05 00:57:49

You don't need posted guidelines to know that this behavior is wrong.

bane | karma 53753 | avg karma 4.99 · | 2012-03-28 21:20:11+00:00

It doesn't matter, the application of the "rules" (read: guidelines) is so arbitrary and capricious as to be entirely meaningless and unpredictable.

rms | karma 22600 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2009-12-24 20:01:21

I think you're still missing the point, now obsessively so. The intent behind the guidelines is much more complicated than the words of the guidelines themselves.

moffkalast | karma 7759 | avg karma 1.88 · | 2023-06-24 03:34:01

Following rules without thinking of their intent is just malicious compliance.

mmt | karma 1583 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2020-02-07 15:14:16+00:00

I do disagree with the rule, but I fear you're having a knee-jerk reaction either to me or to any criticism of the rule and thereby missing my point, which I don't believe you've addressed at all:

If you can explain in a short, simple sentence what the broader purpose of the rule is, then do so in the rule itself. Brevity may be the soul of wit but, but I expect a higher standard than rule wittiness from HN. The https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html do this fine.

Wouldn't you rather have compliance than enforcement?

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swayvil | karma 732 | avg karma 0.24 · | 2022-08-29 11:36:18

To be fair, accusing people of breaking guidelines also breaks guidelines. Better to insert your concerns into inscrutable flaghole.

Simon_says | karma 650 | avg karma 0.68 · | 2017-09-21 16:55:42+00:00

Could you clarify which part of the guidelines you're referencing? I looked through and I couldn't see anything obvious that I violated in that comment.

sfk | karma 1281 | avg karma 3.95 · | 2016-01-20 14:17:26+00:00

You didn't quote the guidelines!