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by dang 54 days ago
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.

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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?

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 hn@ycombinator.com.

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

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