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The wording in your message seems to imply that unsubstantive comments can get you banned. Is this only for really unsubstantive stuff like the "this" comments?
by arama471 10y ago
The wording in your message seems to imply that unsubstantive comments can get you banned. Is this only for really unsubstantive stuff like the "this" comments?
Or am I misreading and a comment has to be uncivil AND unsubstantive for it to be ban worthy?
- dang 10y agoI'm not sure I can express this in propositional logic :) In the above case, there were many comments that were both uncivil and unsubstantive, as well as many warnings and requests to stop, so we were squarely in the ban zone. Incivility is worse than unsubstantiveness, so the threshold for getting banned for the former is lower. We've banned accounts that only posted fluff comments, though, since that's not the intended use of this site. One thing HN users should know is that the substantiveness rule has an exception for empty, friendly comments such as "thank you" and "congratulations", because while those aren't substantive in content, they are salutary for the community.