The End of the Financial World as We Know It

Re:The End of the Financial World as We Know It by pg on Sunday January 04, 2009 @01:55PM (#419373)

I thought this paragraph in the guidelines was clear enough, but I've added another sentence to make it more explicit:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The End of the Financial World as We Know It by swombat on Sunday January 04, 2009 @05:32PM (#419631)

Funny. Most of the time when I make this comment I get 5+ upvotes just for it, because I generally make it quite accurately on articles that are judged not desirable by others too (and the article is usually killed soon after).

I'll refrain from making it in the future if it hurts your HN experience, so this will be my last comment on the topic.

I still maintain that this article is irrelevant to this site, btw. This is reddit/r/business material - i.e. grandiose, inflammatory politico-financial opinion pieces that will result in no significant change of anything whatsoever, but get lots of upvotes and a plethora of comments that look like they make a lot of sense (until you read the response to each comment and find that someone else is making just as much sense with the exactly opposite view).

Imho, this is a fantastic waste of this site - and I shall continue to flag this kind material whenever I find it.

Edit: I'll just add that on occasion even this kind of post that you appear to dislike does generate a useful outcome, e.g.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417744

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