Agreed in principle, but replying to a concrete, personal, whimsical comment with a generic, ideological, denunciatory comment is not a good way to develop a th

Agreed in principle, but replying to a concrete, personal, whimsical comment with a generic, ideological, denunciatory comment is not a good way to develop a thread on Hacker News. In fact it's the opposite. That's why the site guidelines say: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628204.)