Just that you personally rule something Oh I see the problem. No, I'm not personally claiming this, I'm trying to explain the context and motivation of the sit

Just that you personally rule something Oh I see the problem. No, I'm not personally claiming this, I'm trying to explain the context and motivation of the site guidelines. Here are some relevant comments from the site moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838162 and in endless glory: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20tangential%20annoyances&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... The guideline is there because of the repetitive twitter complaints, I'm not making this up as a fun messageboard hypothetical. Complaining about tweets being on twitter is a well-established off-topic topic. please rewrite the guidelines That is impractical for a number of reasons (i.e. the guidelines can't be exhaustive and also aren't, by design) which, coincidentally is also a subject of much moderator commentary. Happy to dig it up for you if interested. I did not. I mean, you talked about this millennial-something standard but there's obviously no such a standard. That's all. I'm happy to accept it as a rhetorical flourish and move on.