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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 int
by pvg 4y 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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- John23832 4y agoI agree with you, but you’re doing the same thing that the rule you’re quoting tells you not to do.
- pvg 4y agoI'm making a note of both of these things, thanks.
- johnny_b_g 4y ago
- Veen 4y ago.
- pvg 4y agoWhere on earth are you melvins getting this stuff? I work at NSA with tptacek. Edit: this is a reply to a comment that got sneak edited. It said: Yes, but he's also a co-founder of Y Combinator and the creator of Hacker News, so you're unlikely to make much headway arguing with him.
- shkkmo 4y agoIt isn't a tangential annoyance when a site blocks you from reading the thread without logging in.
- pvg 4y agoComplaining about tweets being on twitter is among the most known-tangential of tangential annoyance complaints. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20tangential%20twit&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- johnny_b_g 4y agoSo quit making posts whining about it and flag them instead. GAWD!
- pvg 4y ago