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Please don't post flamebait or call names in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you more than once before not to post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to the rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it, because we're trying for something a bit different here.


Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments to HN, and especially please don't cross into personal attack. It only makes things even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post low-information, high-indignation comments to HN. They're flamebait, and inevitably point discussions in less interesting, predictable, and nasty directions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It causes threads to go to repetitive (and often inflammatory) places, which is a failure mode for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, because it makes interesting topics more boring and much nastier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post flamebait to HN. Comments here need to be better than shallow provocations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It degrades discussion and we're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and especially not indignant flamebait. It's directly against the purpose of this site, and it invites worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It causes nose dives in thread quality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post flamebait or unsubstantive comments, and especially not personal attacks, to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN.

Edit: We've had to ask you this more than once before, and ban accounts that don't stop, so please stop. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please stop posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN. You've been doing a lot of that, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Please do not posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. You can make your substantive points without that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

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