[dang]

OK, but please don't post generic flamewar comments to HN. This kind of thing leads to repetitive threads that have happened many times before, which is not the curious conversation we're trying for here.

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

[jqpabc123]

Ok.

But I do feel compelled to respectfully suggest that the following discussion lacks much in the way of what I would call "flames".

[dang]

That could be. But we have to moderate by the general pattern, even though not every thread works out that way. It's basically about whether the expected value of a thread is flamewar or not.