There are guidelines here, which you can find at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html From those

There are guidelines here, which you can find at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html From those guidelines, for commenting: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.