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I'm guessing "name collision" is the "I thought this was about [something else]" comment. E.g., an article about Pliny the Elder and people saying "I thought i
by acheron 5y ago
I'm guessing "name collision" is the "I thought this was about [something else]" comment.
E.g., an article about Pliny the Elder and people saying "I thought it was about beer". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160573
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoThanks, that makes sense! I still don’t think that’s anywhere near obvious enough for the guidelines, however.
- dang 5y agoIf people post the endlessly repeated "I hate reading blog posts on Twitter when they should be a blog", that's a complaint about website formats, no? I don't want to make these things overly specific!
- dang 5y agoThat's a perfect example. Another would be "why do people pick ungoogleable names" or generally any shallow-predictable comment about the name of a thing rather than the thing itself. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449955 (not to pick on that commenter!)