> Your advice sounds a bit pretentious to me. Here I was under the mistaken impression that people should be themselves. No, no they shouldn't. Not if that mea

> Your advice sounds a bit pretentious to me. Here I was under the mistaken impression that people should be themselves. No, no they shouldn't. Not if that means "take whatever action they feel like." One should take purposeful actions which serve to help their fellow HN'er and maintain the tremendously useful tool that this website has become. They should refrain from actions which decrease the signal to noise, or otherwise decrease the utility of HN. That's not pretentious. That's the just an explicit statement of the implicit communal understanding which made this site what it is.