[solve]

I wish that HN would actually enforce the new guidelines against people "honestly" insulting each other's companies and projects.

HN mods: were those just empty promises? Were there actually any changes in enforcement all?

At least could you prevent the most negative comment from always ranking at the top of every HN thread?

[avn2109]

Can we please, please not make HN into a millennial-style* participation-trophy-giving, we're-all-winners zone of empty positive spin, with neither negative feedback nor brutal honesty?

It's starting to feel like we're trending that way with the new policy and the inevitable, sanctimonious "how could you be so negative!?" outrage comments, but I'd far prefer to see us not pull any punches wrt real talk. Not everything in the world is peaches and cream, and pretending so in print has never made any sense to me.

* I am a millennial, and we have a strange obsession with hearing only positive things

[solve]

Being positive? You're putting words in my mouth. I'm talking about less whining and insulting toward other people's companies and projects. No need to be positive.

Honesty about predictions is bullshit. You can't be honest about predictions. Predictions are by definition about events that didn't happen yet (what will happen), or never can happen (what would have happened if something in the past had been different).

Real talk? Predictions are not about real things, they are about predicted things.

[HarrietJones]

It wasn't meant to be an insult, and apologies if it came over that way. If mods want to delete the comment, or want to talk to me about it - I'm happy to do that. I seriously wasn't trying to be negative for the sake of being negative and my "honest" disclaimer at the top was to try and mitigate any hurt I was causing the article's poster.