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by ttpphd 1221 days ago
My only reaction is extreme amusement. The idea that there is some sacred collection of words we must keep pure is funny.
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dang has indicated that machine generated content is not welcome on HN: "HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there." The full post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
Not breaking any of those rules, but it could be argued that y'all are breaking the one about tangential annoyances.

My comment was good. It provided primary source material and supplementary background material, then provided a clearly and explicitly marked summary of the content.

If that was your takeaway then I did a bad job of communicating, because that was not the idea at all.