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by dang 1595 days ago
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

They also tend to get upvoted to the top, where they choke out interesting conversation. That's where this one was before I marked it off-topic.

The upvotes are the greater problem, but it's harder to do anything about that.

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

1 comments

Thanks dang! I regularly see these types of comments on articles linking to Twitter, but those tend to remain at or near the top, from what I remember at least.