[dang]

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive, ranty comments to HN? It isn't that you owe dysfunctional companies or dislikeable billionaires any better. But you owe this community better if you want to keep posting here.

There are lots of places on the internet to vent rage. There are not as many to gratify intellectual curiosity. These two things are incompatible. Here we want intellectual curiosity. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking that spirit to heart, we'd appreciate it.

[untog]

It was a flip, lighthearted comment and I thought that was pretty self-evident. But fine, I’ve deleted it.

[dang]

Flip and lighthearted often comes across as snarky and ragey on the internet. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.

The problem isn't just one comment, it's that you've been posting like this repeatedly. We need higher-quality, more thoughtful comments on HN. It's not enough to rage at someone who got more money than you think they deserve. That sort of thing damages the container by lowering signal/noise ratio and encouraging worse from others.

I don't mean to pick on you personally at all—it's a systemic problem and lots of users underestimate how much they do it by 10x or more. But you've been here a long time and are a good user and we need people in that category to represent the values of the site.