There's also the rule against generic tangents, which this subthread certainly is. The trouble with those is that they tend to get upvoted to the top of a threa

There's also the rule against generic tangents, which this subthread certainly is. The trouble with those is that they tend to get upvoted to the top of a thread (as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45089350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45089350 was), where they choke out the rest of the discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html