by "prepared linkathon" I mean specifically what that commenter was doing - you have a pre-made reply of N (for N >= 1) links that you keep spraying everywhere.

by "prepared linkathon" I mean specifically what that commenter was doing - you have a pre-made reply of N (for N >= 1) links that you keep spraying everywhere. The others https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generated%20comments&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20summary%20comments&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... But I'm not sure what you mean by "as bad as you suggest". I wasn't suggesting a level of badness, more describing HN's messageboard goals, however aspirational. Edit: and since we're exchanging questions, I'm curious what sorts of human interactions do you have in mind in which repeating the same thing 20-odd times is not considered, if not outright abusive, at least impolite and non-constructive. I can think of a couple - say, sports events or protests. But none of these map to 'nerd messageboard' in any meaningful way I can see.