> Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please don't post shallow dismis

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please don't post shallow dismissals > Find something interesting to respond to instead. I mean this comment breaks basically half the rules. I am seeing these types of comments all over the place lately and it's just such a waste of time. I'd love to see moderation get tighter. I know I'm making the perennial "HN comments suck" comment, but a couple topics of late that seem to really irk people and I fail to see how auto-deading short snarky stuff like this does anything but good.