[dang]

Can you please not cross into personal attack or general nastiness, even when an article is bad or you feel it is? We're trying for something else on this site.

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

[bitwize]

So if I dressed my insults up in purple prose like the comment I was responding to, or the parent of that comment, did -- would that be "the kind of discussion we try to foster here on HN"?

[dang]

That doesn't sound like a good-faith question to me.

We've asked you many times to stop breaking the site guidelines. If you keep doing it, we are going to ban you. This is getting absurd:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875721 (May 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535148 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275888 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29212633 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418766 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25563542 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050749 (Jan 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356769 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350618 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054704 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18797087 (Dec 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18114166 (Oct 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18034335 (Sept 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17517586 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577510 (June 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13970380 (March 2017)