[dang]

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

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

[lisper]

Heh. TIL. Sorry about that.

[dang]

It's a new guideline actually - I meant to mention that.

[lisper]

Ah. :-)

[dredmorbius]

When the site is utterly unreadable (this one is) and fails to render in simplified views (this one does), the heads-up is useful.

Bad guideline.

[dang]

I hear you, but such comments are so common and by and large so offtopic that I think it's probably better to treat them as weeds.