Aren't you breaking the HN rules in this way? I don't believe so. I'm not dismissing your arguments, it's just that here, this argument has been argued and set

Aren't you breaking the HN rules in this way? I don't believe so. I'm not dismissing your arguments, it's just that here, this argument has been argued and settled. Your particular approach has been found not to improve discussion (as explained in exhaustive detail) so to participate meaningfully, you gotta avoid it for reasons that go well beyond just the act of pasting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20canned%20argument&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... You can mail the mods and ask if you want to be quintuple sure, they're plenty responsive.