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by tptacek
1263 days ago
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Comments about formatting tangents are especially repetitive and don't earn their keep by bringing anything valuable to the thread; complaining about tweet threading is pissing in the wind: people aren't going to stop threading (or boldfacing the wrong text, or setting things white-on-black background, or using 200MB font stacks, or breaking the back button) just because some person on a message board gripes about it. Beelow is a link to the 'dang comments about this, there's no uncertainty, and you should stop pretending like there's a live debate about whether HN welcomes comments about tweet threading on stories that aren't about tweet threading. It does not. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... It's worth knowing that HN is a common law system, not a civil law one: there's the guidelines page, and then there's a long history of moderator interpretations and addenda, and to grok the totality of our rules, you need both. Think of the guidelines like the Constitution, and Dan as the Supreme Court. Edit This comment was originally snottier and stated that someone had already posted the mod comment link, but, nope, I was just wrong about that, and I do apologize. Chagrin is a powerful decongestant and so I'll be less snotty in the future. |
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You weren't, it just that this thread got a little out of whack with the self-reply-because-reply-link-was-hidden thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271184