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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropri
by rms 18y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)
- hugh 18y agoIs that a new guideline, by the way? It wasn't there in the old days -- presumably it postdates the "flag" feature. In any case, I don't like that guideline much. Complaining about offtopicness is, in my opinion, the best substitute for downvoting. Sure, it means that every political story acquires a boring "!HN" thread, but that's exactly the point: the boring thread is the punishment for the story, and is designed to suck out all the oxygen from the _actual_ political debate which would otherwise ensue. I know I post rather a lot of comments complaining about political stories. This isn't because I'm not interested in politics -- it's actually because I'm very interested in politics and have to actively stop myself from getting involved in internet-based political arguments (something I swore off many years ago as a waste of time).