I thought “with monkeys” was a reference to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs myself.
The only part of the comment that might break the guidelines that I can tell is the "monkeys" bit, but I'm pretty sure that's a reference to the bored apes NFTs.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
> Find something interesting to respond to instead.
I mean this comment breaks basically half the rules. I am seeing these types of comments all over the place lately and it's just such a waste of time. I'd love to see moderation get tighter.
I know I'm making the perennial "HN comments suck" comment, but a couple topics of late that seem to really irk people and I fail to see how auto-deading short snarky stuff like this does anything but good.
People often say "but I'm just pointing out facts", but this is not a good argument - there are infinitely many facts, and they don't select themselves - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
Truth is what we're after, so posting right things and correcting wrong things is important. Yet if you think about it, it's neither a sufficient condition for a good HN post, nor a necessary one.
It isn't sufficient because people sometimes express true things in aggressive ways that damage the container and end up discrediting the truth*. That hurts all of us.
It isn't a necessary condition, either, because people are often wrong in good faith, with the intention of finding the truth. There shouldn't be a rule against that. Freedom to make mistakes is essential to curiosity and finding the truth in the end. And such a rule would be impossible to enforce in any case, since we don't have a truth meter.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...