95% of HN comments are unsubstantive, so that was never the actual rule applied. It's probably - "Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the

95% of HN comments are unsubstantive, so that was never the actual rule applied. It's probably - "Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." Saying it's unsubstantive is nicer. It was a substantive comment. It made a statement of fact that contradicted the articles title. That allowed someone to reply with another substantive fact "Bitcoin addresses hasn't grown for 2 years" with link Which I would not agree is exactly a correct summary of the data, but it's worth looking at and has create a thread far better than most of the others - https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&m=addresses.ActiveCount&resolution=1month https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&m=addresses.Activ...