I agree with you, but you’re doing the same thing that the rule you’re quoting tells you not to do.

I'm making a note of both of these things, thanks.

Indeed - pvg is clearly one of HN's biggest trolls/hypocrites, but thinks because having >11000 karma the rules don't apply to them.

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Where on earth are you melvins getting this stuff? I work at NSA with tptacek.

Edit: this is a reply to a comment that got sneak edited. It said:

Yes, but he's also a co-founder of Y Combinator and the creator of Hacker News, so you're unlikely to make much headway arguing with him.

It isn't a tangential annoyance when a site blocks you from reading the thread without logging in.

Complaining about tweets being on twitter is among the most known-tangential of tangential annoyance complaints.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

So quit making posts whining about it and flag them instead. GAWD!