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by mclightning 1835 days ago
> E.g. if headline is about X but in the vicinity of Y the thread gets filled with generic comments about Y that have nothing to do with X

Exactly! I created an ASK HN a while back on this. It received a lot of feedback. It appears many long-time HN readers are tired of it.

You can see it here; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287700