I think it has to do with posting a high volume of low-information comments on provocative points.
For example, "I was told that garbage collection knobs were an antifeature" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323019) could easily be mistaken for trolling even if you didn't mean it that way, and indeed it derailed the thread.
Trolling, despite the original meaning of the word, is more about effects than intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). If it wasn't your intent to derail the thread and turn it into yet-another programming language flamewar, then you should have disambiguated your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).
Re:Go 1.19 Released
by staticassertion on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:02PM
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Yes, that thread was trolling. The one you've responded to was not.
As I said earlier, I was responding to the total set of 15 or so comments you posted. That's a lot of comments, especially low-quality ones. We're trying for quality rather than quantity here, so if you could post in the intended spirit in the future, we'd be grateful.
The "simple" bit is just me poking fun at Go though, so yeah sure detach away.