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by dang 2875 days ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
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pandasun 2875 days ago
Sorry that they are unsubstantive to you, would have expected more from an admin than a comment like that.

Edit: your comment got me thinking, what is substantive to you? Is it just the general hivemind of HN that's only allowed here?

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dang 2875 days ago
The hivemind doesn't agree with itself on anything, so that can't be it.

A comment is unsubstantive if it doesn't include any more information than 'boo' or 'yay'. (Although polite empty comments like congratulating someone are just fine.) On HN we want discussions where readers can learn a bit more than that someone likes mining.

Edit: another unsubstantive comment you posted was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672125, which was worse because it invokes the uncivil why-dont-you-move-to-another-country-then internet trope. Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules more carefully here?

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pandasun 2874 days ago
Thanks for getting back to me. I have to disagree with your first point. There is very much a hivemind on HN, and any comment that doesn't fit in there gets downvoted. I find myself scrolling all the way down every thread to get different points of view, by the time I get to the interesting comments I can barely read them because you made the CSS make "unpopular" comments barely visible.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672125

Fair enough.

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

Why is this selectively enforced? "Assume good faith." for example? I haven't seen anyone do that on here.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681471

This was a genuine question of mine, it's currently -2.

I wasn't the first one with this thought: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t...

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pandasun 2871 days ago
Hey dang, haven't heard back from you. Was just wondering on your opinion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700387

I'm currently negative 3 points for trying to start a conversation about the topic at hand. How is this not a hivemind? I followed your instructions and yet this still happens.

Look forward to your response.

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