[dang]

Ok, we can leave it like this for now, but if people end up reacting in the way I described, we're going to end up enforcing the policy. I've learned that it's much better to deal with these things earlier than later, but this is a borderline case so we can kick the can down the road.

[RealityWinner]

Thanks, I understand. In the meantime can you point me to where the policy is? I don't see it in the Guidelines[1].

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

[dang]

There are zillions of moderation practices like that one. They all appear repeatedly in my moderation comments, often with search links that point to past examples. But we don't make a formal list, for a bunch of reasons. One is that it would make the guidelines so long that no one would read them. Another is that we're not bureaucrats. A third is that if you make a list of everything, people will conclude that if something is not on the list, it must be ok, and that's not at all how HN works. It has always been a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law place.

[RealityWinner]

Merely wanted to familiarize myself with any rules that I was not aware of. Cheers.