[dang]

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here? You've done this a fair bit, and it degrades the quality of the site—both itself and by encouraging others to do the same.

I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park. HN is also a park of sorts, so if you'd treat it with the same respect, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Blazespinnaker]

Perhaps you have me confused with someone else? Looking at my history I don’t see anything particularly abusive and certainly not “unsubstantiated”.

[dang]

I was thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208095 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192384 when I posted that. But you're right, your other history looks fine, so "a fair bit" was too strong—sorry!

The word is 'unsubstantive' and we use it to mean empty comments that lower the signal/noise ratio here. The idea on HN is if you have a substantive point, to make it thoughtfully; and if not, then simply to not comment until you do.