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We're here to learn something, not to engage in tedious back-and-forth ideological scrimmage, so the guidelines ask you to please not post like this: > Eschew
by sctb 9y ago
We're here to learn something, not to engage in tedious back-and-forth ideological scrimmage, so the guidelines ask you to please not post like this:
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoIt's a post about a company adapting to the declining rural America, and we aren't supposed to discuss what is causing the decline? That doesn't make sense. How will these conversations advance when they're either basically banned on all other forms of media or within an echo chamber?
- sctb 9y agoWe're not trying to avoid a discussion! The opposite: in order to have one, we need to do a better job of commenting thoughtfully and insightfully.