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Complaining about presentation formats, including the colors or fonts or use of scripts on linked articles, ought to be against the guidelines: it doesn't contr
by twblalock 7y ago
Complaining about presentation formats, including the colors or fonts or use of scripts on linked articles, ought to be against the guidelines: it doesn't contribute to discussion about the content of the linked article and devolves into bickering.
- legitster 7y agoThis is being downvoted but, barring certain circumstances, I think I agree. There's an irony in a discussion about climate change going way off topic.
- s1artibartfast 7y agoWhy is the content a more appropriate topic than the format? This is a tech forum, not a climate news forum.
- dang 7y agoHacker News is not a "tech forum"; please see the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- s1artibartfast 7y agoHi Dang, I wasn't suggesting that all topics must focus on tech, but that the majority of Hacker News users come from tech, and may therefore have an interest in the technical presentation of the submission. My apologies if this was not clear. I think that if users find technical aspects of an article a more interesting topic of discussion than the content, they should be free to discuss it in this forum. I do not think that the guidelines should be updated to prohibit "off topic" criticism, as the parent comment suggested.