[dang]

If you've read the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), it should be clear that comments like this one—indignant, generic, and fulminant—violate the intended use of the site. Please don't do this here.

Thoughtful critique is fine, of course.

[otikik]

It’s not “generic”. It refers to, like, 100 people or less.

There’s a comment down below that says “most young people would do it”. Why don’t you say anything to that person?

[dang]

Generic has to do with categories, not quantity. But this was not a borderline call—it's the kind of comment the guidelines are trying to persuade, cajole, and/or coax you into not posting here!

Not that you owe the rich and powerful better, necessarily, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

> Why don’t you say anything to that person?

Purely because I didn't see it. It's flagkilled now.

We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much. When you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, that's the likeliest explanation. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at [e-mail].

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[otikik]

Fair enough. Thank you for your work, I know it can be quite demanding to deal with people like this all the time.

[dang]

Thanks for the kind reply :)