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Generated comments are not allowed for the reasons linked above and the GP comment says it was generated. Summary comments and comments that are mostly pastes f
by pvg 3y ago
Generated comments are not allowed for the reasons linked above and the GP comment says it was generated. Summary comments and comments that are mostly pastes from the article are discouraged as well for similar reasons:
See item #2 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697
Comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or try to summarize the article, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.
- _upoi 3y agoI admit that I was wrong here, point taken. I appreciate the reference.
- pvg 3y agoIncidentally, if you want to see comments that were flagged to death, click on your username in the top bar and then change the 'showdead' option in the profile settings from 'no' to 'yes'. Just keep in mind you'll also end up seeing some pretty shitty comments every now and then.