Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully, rather than in the flamewar style? This is particularly important when people are sharing their work. We don't want a culture in which people get flamed and belittled for doing that.

This is important because the effects that comments like this one produce are much stronger than the people making them assume they are. Worse, they compound. Then, unintentionally, we end up with an asshole culture which no one would want to subject themselves to. On HN, we want the incentives to go exactly the other way. I'm sure you can make your substantive criticisms without putdowns and name-calling if you want to—and that would actually be a quite valuable contribution.

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