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It really is time for the HN mods to review the guidelines. Nearly every comment here has been made almost verbatim thousands of times, in dozens of different f
by crispinb 4y ago
It really is time for the HN mods to review the guidelines. Nearly every comment here has been made almost verbatim thousands of times, in dozens of different forums, repeated for years on end.
The same thing happens when there's any mention of an electron app, or Windows, or software having the temerity to not reveal its source. These issues turn so many HN commenters into echolalics.
This guideline should be extended to cover this kind of repetitive and pointless content:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
Assuming that the guideline writers really mean the justification stated here: more than 50% of the comments in this kind of thread are so often canonical examples of 'too common to be interesting', so the guideline should apply to this kind of standard trigger issue.