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dang on Aug 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't Read the Comments

Unsubstantive dismissals make for bad HN comments, so please don't post them. We're hoping for thoughtful discussion here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12347919 and marked it off-topic.

forloop on Aug 23, 2016 [–]

Would this have happened if I had written yes? (To the question of whether the post is worth reading).

dang on Aug 23, 2016 | [–]

That would still have been unsubstantive, but unsubstantive dismissals are particularly bad.

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