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There are obviously bad comments, which most people agree are inappropriate but I think the problem is that there are another set of comments that the HN team thinks is inappropriate but a significant portion of commenters think is clearly okay.

So I think informative examples would point out comments that many people think are okay but that the HN team does not.




Someone writes a detailed technical blog post and submits it.

A few comments are about the content of the post.

And then someone makes a comment about the blog CSS or the framework or javascript, wothout mentioning any content of the blog.

I get the impression that HN doesn't want those type of comments here.


I very much doubt that is the main category of comment that the new rule is addressing.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236332

Here's the example I was thinking of.




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