please consider commenting more thoughtfully. I understand this is a joke but we don't want this site to devolve into Reddit.

Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

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

I don't have a flag button or option my account is new

click on time since posted to get a flag button - exactly why hn works this way is a bit of a mystery, to me at least

Thank you, I had no idea!

It is sad that we live in a world where this could be interpreted both ways.