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Please don't sneer like this on HN. You've been here long enough to know we're trying for much better than this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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We've banned this account. Please don't register accounts for the purpose of taunting people and posting ideological rhetoric and flamebait. THe guidelines are clear that this is not what HN is for.

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

Please don't reply to bad comments with further bad comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On HN we expect people to comment substantively whether they hope to get into YC or not.

Release discussions:

Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982943 - Feb 2026 (29 comments)

Hologram v0.5.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690158 - July 2025 (50 comments)

Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710376 - Jan 2025 (37 comments)

Please don't use personal epithets on HN. You can criticize someone’s actions without calling names. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks! Here are the two past submissions with comments:

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367416 - Feb 2020 (30 comments)

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945 - July 2016 (145 comments)

Thanks :)

It was unanimously downvoted and attracted community flags, which is why I saw it. Others found a way to respond with substance, whereas your response seemed like snark. I can understand you didn't mean it to be seen as a low-quality comment; few people do. But I'm bringing to your attention the fact that I, and others in the community, read it as the kind of comment that we don’t want to see here.

Please don't act like a jerk. Everyone knows it's possible for a statement to be correct and vile at the same time.

Please don't post grumbly dismissals like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't post tasteless comments like this on HN.

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments like this on HN. You've been here long enough to know we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't reply to anyone like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here, and none of us would like it if we were spoken to this way due mainly to our nationality. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Previously...

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30595038 - March 2022 (43 comments)

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18559477 - Nov 2018 (36 comments)

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105437 - Aug 2015 (19 comments)

Please don't post grandiose rhetoric like this. HN is not for ideological battle and and the guidelines ask us to avoid flamebait and divisive commentary. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This comment has been flagged in our software as AI-generated. Of course it could be a false positive (though from reading it myself it does come across as LLM-influenced). But if you've used AI to write or polish the text, even just a little bit, please don't. The guidelines specifically ask us not to do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

Please don't attack people on HN, even with vague insinuations. The guidelines ask:

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

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

Please, must we introduce contemporary political flamebait in a story about ... archeology? We're trying for curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't post snark on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't.

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Please don't use internet tropes or abuse people on HN the way you did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973892.

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Please don't post dreck like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just be a respectful participant here. I'm not policing you or being hostile. I'm pointing out what the expectations are, and stating that the rules apply equally to everyone, no matter what position you're advocating for. We work hard to make this a place where everyone can express their point of view, you included. Everyone needs to make the effort to communicate in a way that's respectful. It's really not hard. I'd hope you don't have people taunting and jeering at you when you're trying to do your job.

Please don't sermonize. HN has existed for two decades and we've been doing this job a long time. Plenty of people try and find a way to justify why their activities should be excused. It can't work like that. The guidelines have to apply equally to everyone.

Your initial comment was inflammatory. You could have expressed the same sentiment in a thoughtful, substantive style, rather than an inflammatory one. Others perpetuated the flamewar, and I've also replied to two of them, but it's not true that the flamewar is entirely others' fault; even if others started it, you've still escalated and perpetuated it and posted personal insults. You may not recognize them as personal insults. That's not unusual; people often don't realize how mean their words come across. That's why we sometimes need to point it out.

We don't care what side you're on and we go to great effort to allow everyone to express their perspective here. We are constantly reminding people of all positions/ideologies to respect the guidelines.

This is only a place where anyone wants to participate because others make the effort to keep the standards up. Please do your part rather than dragging them down. It's really not hard.

Please don't engage on ideological battle or use epithets/tropes like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't post comments in this sanctimonious style on HN. We're here for curious conversation, not moralizing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks. We’ve changed it to a more neutral title.