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HN Guidelines: > 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 t
by s5300 5y ago
HN Guidelines:
> 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.
>Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
It's roughly the middle of a workday on a Tuesday, a time in which one may expect a lull in what you may think as "higher quality" posting. You've also created a throwaway account just to complain about this - unless you don't actually post and contribute to this community, but for some reason felt the need to complain about it now.
Personally, with regards to "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - I believe that some HN users, who have cats as pets and know some of their more antisocial/unconcerned behaviors with regards to humans, may have found it interesting based on the headline with the thought of "huh, my cat probably would've left me to die - what was the difference here?"
I will say, I did find the article slightly lackluster vs the headline, but it's by no mean terrible and something that should be outright shamed from HN