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Snarky one-liners aren't good comments for Hacker News. You can always say something substantive instead, and then we have a much higher chance of an insightful
by sctb 9y ago
Snarky one-liners aren't good comments for Hacker News. You can always say something substantive instead, and then we have a much higher chance of an insightful discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Dylan16807 9y agoIt's snarky but I think the replies constitute a perfectly good discussion and there's no reason to collapse all of it by default. It's a bit off-topic but out of the five current top-level comments only one is addressing the contents of the article anyway...
- sctb 9y agoOK, that's a good point. We've uncollapsed the thread.
- alkonaut 9y agoI'm sorry for not meeting the standards. I think it did spark insightful discussion. I thought it was going to cost a few dozen in karma but apparently didn't. So not everyone thought it was terrible I guess. In my experience the amount of insightful discussion is often inversely proportional to the quality of the initial post. Have no data to back that up. There is a fine line between flamebait and discussion-bait.