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by dang 742 days ago
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

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

2 comments

I agree that this was neither my finest nor most constructive comment.
It makes me chuckle to think you’ve done an analysis of this article for provocativeness.

Thinking about a real human spending their time trolling threads to tell someone their critique isn’t interesting..well that’s a bit less humorous.

One can recognize a response to provocation without an analysis. That's because they're so predictable, which is also why we have that guideline.