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I've always found this copy-paste rather hypocritical since by responding to my comment you are submitting a comment complaining that a submission is inappropri
by tdavis 18y ago
I've always found this copy-paste rather hypocritical since by responding to my comment you are submitting a comment complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site instead of flagging it, thereby contradicting your entire stance on the issue.
If you don't like my comment, flag it, don't tell me something I already know.
Edit: Also, it would seem that down-voting would serve an even better purpose here since while you can down-vote my comment, there's nothing of substance I can do about this stupid article w/o commenting on it since, historically, I have seen no effect from flagging.
- cstejerean 18y ago"there's nothing of substance I can do about this stupid article w/o commenting on it". You can ignore it.
- rms 18y agoActually one of the few threads where I've done this in the past was killed, presumably by flagging. I don't think it takes that many flags to kill a story. In the end my comment is certainly wasting space, but in the end hopefully it results in less people complaining about submissions. Finally if you want to play semantics, the guidelines say don't complain about a "submission." Complaining about comments is fair game.
- tdavis 18y agoAh, well I stand corrected then. My argument of semantics was perhaps not warranted, I was just frustrated by this and another recent article. I'm not sure which is more annoying, political submissions or articles that are on-topic but simply idiotic (see: TC article @ #8.) At least HN remains the best alternative.