[TheAdamAndChe]

Hello, friend. Welcome to the site. I see you're new here, so I thought I'd let you know why you're being downvoted.

Your post isn't very substantive. You express your opinion, but you don't explain the thought processes behind your opinion. When combined with the snarkiness, it just wasn't a productive comment.

If you haven't yet, read up on the Hacker News Guidelines[1], that may help when posting something somewhat controversial.

We try hard to avoid forming an echo chamber here. Overly emotional and unsubstantive comments are downvoted, and controversial comments with a lot of substance to them are often(but not always, unfortunately) upvoted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

edit: The irony of being downvoted for trying to maintain a positive, productive culture on this site is not lost to me. I won't bother to do so in the future.

[erikpukinskis]

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[TheAdamAndChe]

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

They were new. It's important to teach people these things instead of just deleting every comment that is bad. It's on all of us to maintain this site's culture, it's not just the mods' job.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Noted.