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Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and especially not putdowns.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully. If not, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I appreciate the vague negative takes on tools like this where it feels like there is so much hype it's impossible to have a different opinion. "It's bad" is perfectly substantiative in my opinion; this person tried it, didn't like it, and doesn't have much more to say because of that, but it's still a useful perspective.

Is this why HN is so dang pro-AI? the negative comments, even small ones, are moderated away? explains a lot TBH

There is no value in a single poster saying "it's bad". I don't know this person, there is zero context on why I should care that this user thinks it's bad. Unless they state why they think it's bad, it adds nothing to the conversation and is just noise
HN is by no means "pro-AI". It's sharply divided, and (as always with these things) each side assumes the other side is dominant.
"After viewing identical samples of major network television coverage of the Beirut massacre, both pro-Israeli and pro-Arab partisans rated these programs, and those responsible for them, as being biased against their side."

https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~jpiliavi/965/hwang.pdf

I think this comment would be a little better by specifying WHY it's bad instead of just a "it's bad" like it's a Twitter thread.
The subject is pretty exhausted. The reason I post "it's bad" because, honestly, expending on it just feels like a waste of time and energy. The point is demonstrating that this _isn't_ a consensus, and not much more than that.

Edit: bonus points if this gets me banned.

(We don't ban people for posting like this!)

If it felt like a waste of time and energy to post something substantive, rather than the GP comment (https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44998577), then you should have just posted nothing. That comment was obviously neither substantive nor thoughtful. This is hardly a borderline call!

We want substantive, thoughtful comments from people who do have the time and energy to contribute them.

Btw, to avoid a misunderstanding that sometimes shows up: it's fine for comments to be critical; that is, it's possible to be substantive, thoughtful, and critical all at the same time. For example, I skimmed through your account's most recent comments and saw several of that kind, e.g. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44299479 and https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=42882357. If your GP comment had been like that, it would have been fine; you don't have to like Claude Code (or whatever the $thing is).

that wasn't a negative comment though. a negative comment would explain what they didn't like about it. this was the digital equivalent of flytipping.

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