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446 points tonmoy | 1 comments | 24 Aug 23 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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nologic01 ◴[24 Aug 23 18:08 UTC] No.37252485[source]▶
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This is one of the more serious pain points I notice (thankfully only occasionally).

Obviously getting some visibility is important for people launching new projects. Sometimes adversarial comments seem to be motivated by commercial rather than technical reasons.

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antisthenes ◴[24 Aug 23 20:32 UTC] No.37254176[source]▶
A shallow article written in bad faith only deserves a shallow dismissal.

Don't force me to fight an asymmetric warfare battle against malicious authors to participate.

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gingerbread-man ◴[24 Aug 23 20:38 UTC] No.37254231[source]▶
Does a ‘shallow article’ even merit a dismissive comment? Wouldn’t it be better simply to ignore it and find another thread on which to engage?
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antisthenes ◴[24 Aug 23 21:03 UTC] No.37254516{3}[source]▶
Ignoring/Flagging it is akin to shallow dismissal.

I make no distinction between the 2.

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1. post-it ◴[24 Aug 23 21:05 UTC] No.37254547{4}[source]▶
But the guidelines do.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals,