These kind of posts are not unusual. A few of them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1788777 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1788777 http://news.ycombi

These kind of posts are not unusual. A few of them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1788777 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1788777 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915379 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915379 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891223 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891223 This very recent one (4 days ago) got props on the highest comment rating for allowing comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1951476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1951476 It is not very precise to say the community has no tools for filtering these: it can stop upvoting them. But I agree that we have less tools (no flag and no comments). Not to mention meta posts like this serve as a tool to act upon. Even if people took it all away, there is still google Sidewiki (http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index.html http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index.html ) and Marginize (http://www.marginize.com/ http://www.marginize.com/ ) that enable side comments on any page, not only on HN. On the other hand, if this bothered me enough, I'd rather filter out such topics from my HN reader rather than use a workaround to contribute to a topic that doesn't want to have contributions.