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• dang 5y ago
  "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's a particularly low-value form of comment, and also very common, I think mostly because we try to secure our identity in opposition to others. Since this mechanism appears to work the same way in everyone, such comments are repetitive and extremely tedious. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • CPLX 5y ago
    Point taken! Just for reference though it wasn't a sneer at all. I love HN and think this format where people get into a broader discussion about the general themes implied by the article, rather than stick narrowly to the actual text of the story, has been a successful one.