[dang]

Whether that's true or not, you (i.e. everyone here) need to follow the rules whether someone else is breaking them or not. Any other approach guarantees a downward spiral, because it always feels like the other person started it and did worse. To put it in terms that many will remember from their mothers: two wrongs don't make a right.

Perhaps you don't the article author (or whoever the other person may be) any better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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

[doublejay1999]

The nature of the article is hardly in question. It is the headline, and purpose of the piece.

My best advice would be to apply your vigilance to submissions as diligently as you do to the comments, nipping it in the bud, as it were. That's what I'd do, if I was interested in maintaining standards as your profess to be.

[dang]

That's not how it works here. How it works is that users need to control themselves under provocation.

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

[doublejay1999]

> How it works is that users need to control themselves under provocation.

then do so, my friend. then do so.