> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Copy+pasting the rules is even more boring, just move on

I actually think it's good to have the community enforce/explain our standards from time to time, within reason. Dang can't see everything, and where he does it takes time to respond. Downvoting/flagging works too, but some may legitimately not know that they've broken a guideline.

I feel like there's a relevant XKCD here about the irrelevance of commenting on irrelevance but I'm struggling to remember which.

Well, it's not all that relevant to the conversation at hand, anyway... :)

Yes, but it's also clear that there's something very funny going on here, rules be damned

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What a pretentious (and wildly indemonstrable) take.

It is based on my experience of using this site for 12 years. You can huff about it all you please.

Not huffing at all, you basically just confirmed yourself my very affirmation: you pulled that out of thin air. Feel free to think it, still doesn't make it neither neither true, false nor demonstrable.

As to the pretentiousness of the thing, that's usually my take on people who feel fine talking about 330mil+ MAUs as a single person.

> you pulled that out of thin air

As opposed to your opinion that is empirically flawless and unquestionable?

Opinion is opinion, thus me explicitly calling it opinion.

My take is honestly supported by the very concept of faulty generalization fallacy - given that you did confirm you based this claim on anecdotal evidence - if you ask me, but maybe that's just me.

you know you are on orange reddit right?

Why can't I downvote?

You need 501 karma.

Thanks for answering my question instead of downvoting it!

You may find this page helpful, I know I did (In the sense that it let me better understand what all was going on).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

That 1 is triggering my OCD.

Well, you could also phrase it as “You need more than 500 karma.” :)

/r/LOLHackerNews