HN's guidelines have this relevant bit: > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. An editorial that cle

HN's guidelines have this relevant bit: > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. An editorial that clearly does not embody that spirit is a poor starting point if you want the discussion to trend towards sanity. Especially when the title itself violates—and ensures further violations of—this rule: > Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.