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>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 instea

by usrn 5y ago

>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 I wonder if this is the most routinely violated rule.

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
Personally, I think the most routinely violated rule is "don't discuss voting in comments".
- the_only_law 5y ago
  I’m kinda saddened by this one because occasionally someone brings up an interesting point about voting, but are typically buried.
  - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
    IMO, in 99.999% of cases, the part about voting could be cropped and the comment would be stronger. I’ll sometimes come across comments like: > [very insightful, interesting, well thought out comment here.] Edit: Why am I being downvoted?! I don’t know why it was downvoted, but I would have upvoted if not for the ending. Unfortunately, now I feel obliged to downvote it too.
Semiapies 5y ago
That or not using submissions primarily for self-promotion. But then, it always was that way.
MBCook 5y ago
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. This is the one that gets my vote. If anything is posted from Twitter it’s almost HN law that 80% of comments have to be complaining about the fact that it’s on Twitter.
- yashap 5y ago
  Yeah, this is the one. If a page is slow loading, works poorly without JS, has a noisy layout, etc., you’re gonna hear more about that in the comments than the actual content. Overall though, these guidelines are mostly followed surprisingly well. HN has done a great job building a strong community with a cohesive culture.
the_only_law 5y ago
A couple years ago I would have guessed. Nowadays it seems I’d be lucky to go day without the comments managing to violate damn near every guideline.
mynameisnoone 5y ago

by usrn 5y ago

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

Personally, I think the most routinely violated rule is "don't discuss voting in comments".

the_only_law 5y ago
I’m kinda saddened by this one because occasionally someone brings up an interesting point about voting, but are typically buried.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  IMO, in 99.999% of cases, the part about voting could be cropped and the comment would be stronger. I’ll sometimes come across comments like: > [very insightful, interesting, well thought out comment here.] Edit: Why am I being downvoted?! I don’t know why it was downvoted, but I would have upvoted if not for the ending. Unfortunately, now I feel obliged to downvote it too.

Semiapies 5y ago

That or not using submissions primarily for self-promotion. But then, it always was that way.

MBCook 5y ago

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. This is the one that gets my vote. If anything is posted from Twitter it’s almost HN law that 80% of comments have to be complaining about the fact that it’s on Twitter.

yashap 5y ago
Yeah, this is the one. If a page is slow loading, works poorly without JS, has a noisy layout, etc., you’re gonna hear more about that in the comments than the actual content. Overall though, these guidelines are mostly followed surprisingly well. HN has done a great job building a strong community with a cohesive culture.

the_only_law 5y ago

A couple years ago I would have guessed. Nowadays it seems I’d be lucky to go day without the comments managing to violate damn near every guideline.

mynameisnoone 5y ago