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Please make your substantive points without swipes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.


Which aspect of his post was unsubstantive or a "swipe"? That is, excluding the continued need to groom the HN echo chamber.


"Please don’t post lazy commentary like this again"


Yea this ain’t it. A swipe would be a personal attack, such as calling OP lazy vs calling the commentary lazy. A single action doesn’t make a person who they are and we should be calling out lazy commentary when we see it. “Please don’t do this again” is about as polite as one can possibly be while calling out bad behavior and leaves the door open for the person to grow. The fact that you’re citing guidelines to me while saying nothing to OP is kinda confusing. What is your goal here?


I know interpretations differ, but calling someone's comment "lazy" is, for internet triggering purposes, definitely a swipe, and we moderate HN that way, so please make your substantive points differently than that.




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