This, IMO flies in the face of "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." - Taken from HN Submission Guidelines [http://ycomb

This, IMO flies in the face of "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." - Taken from HN Submission Guidelines [http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]. I have been following this advice well before it appeared on HN, and wish that everyone would. If I have someone talking about something that I am not interested in, I have one of two options - tell them my concern and hope we can reach a common ground, or as hanshasuro correctly said, stop listening (by not calling them or interacting with them in any way). In the real world, I am pretty certain I would not ask someone else, let alone someone completely anonymous to hint at the issue. Now that I have gotten off my soap-box, I do realize that it was for fun, though I am not sure it's the kind of fun I like to participate in.