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It's now officially against the rules to post these. See third from bottom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgu
by frou_dh 6y ago
It's now officially against the rules to post these. See third from bottom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- reaperducer 6y agoAh, good to know. Is that a recent addition to the rules, or did I forget that since I joined?
- AnonC 6y agoThis seems like a more recent addition, though I don’t agree with it. I personally value such comments and avoid the sites in question. And the more the people who write about it and avoid those, the better. I wouldn’t have known about this new guideline if I hadn’t seen your comment above. >Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
- misnome 6y agoI also avoided sites with (helpful imo) comments that the site did things like breaking the back button, or blocking full screen popups.
- pfranz 6y agoI understand the motivation (it doesn't encourage discussion about the topic at hand), but like to see these criticisms both as a warning before visiting the site and to know more about what things really bug other users and sites that may help quantify them.
- misnome 6y agoarchive.org suggests this was added on 27th June. Perhaps there should be Some rule against immediately chastising people for rules that have just been added.
- ta17711771 6y agoIt's against the guidelines. Also, who's to say when an author/stakeholder in a post might be present?