Re:It takes $420k per year to run Lichess
by dang on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:23PM
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Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with 17 comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.
The GP obviously broke the site guidelines by tossing in casual flamebait in a way that was guaranteed to be inflammatory, but if the rest of you had followed the site guidelines yourselves, by flagging the comment instead of posting dozens of replies and blowing it up into a completely off-topic flamewar with 100+ comments and counting, the damage would have been minimal instead of extreme.
Also, we've had to ask you about exactly this sort of thing in the past. That's not cool.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
The GP obviously broke the site guidelines by tossing in casual flamebait in a way that was guaranteed to be inflammatory, but if the rest of you had followed the site guidelines yourselves, by flagging the comment instead of posting dozens of replies and blowing it up into a completely off-topic flamewar with 100+ comments and counting, the damage would have been minimal instead of extreme.
Also, we've had to ask you about exactly this sort of thing in the past. That's not cool.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html