Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully? Thoughtful criticism is welcome but snarky putdowns and onliners, etc., degrade the discussion for eve

Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully? Thoughtful criticism is welcome but snarky putdowns and onliners, etc., degrade the discussion for everyone. You've posted substantive comments in other threads, so this should be easy to fix. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.