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by _delirium 5327 days ago
If you don't want to see intemperate comments calling people cunts, it's in your power to stop that by not posting them. Nobody's even making you click on the story or comments at all!
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Nobody's even making you click on the story or comments at all!

So why have any submission guidelines at all then?

To minimize the amount of unwanted comments.

After all these are submission GUIDELINES - not submission LAW.

And between startup hustle, scala and lolcats there is a wide array of possibilities. When an unwanted submission appears it is either A) Ignored or B) Upvoted.

If you don't agree with submission you can flag it and after enough members of community have done so it will go away.

There is really no need for some of us going around and act rude towards people who have different tastes/priorities.

This kind of holistic argument contributes way more noise than the stories themselves.

I don't mind the bit which calls people cunts (and I apologize for the fact that I deleted that particular bit in favour of a pithier bit while you were writing your own comment), it's everything else.