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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

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204 points joveian | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.787s | source
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artemonster[dead post] ◴[16 Oct 24 18:17 UTC] No.41862021[source]▶
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piva00 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:23 UTC] No.41862088[source]▶
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I suggest you re-read this list: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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stetrain ◴[16 Oct 24 18:31 UTC] No.41862192[source]▶
I wouldn't call the quality and readability of the written text "tangential", it's not about the CSS styling.

I don't think it's quite as bad as the above commenter seems to think it is, but they're welcome to that opinion.

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1. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[16 Oct 24 19:23 UTC] No.41862826[source]▶
> I wouldn't call the quality and readability of the written text "tangential"

The topic in this comment section is the "transition year" in Irish secondary schools. The format of the website which introduces that topic is tangential to that topic. I don't know where one would get the idea that a tangent that's not about CSS styling is not a tangent.

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2. stetrain ◴[16 Oct 24 19:40 UTC] No.41863019[source]▶
The topic is also a specific article about that transition year. I don't think that commenting about an article being particularly well-written, easy to understand, or having nice examples would be against the guidelines here.

If discussion of anything but the underlying subject of the link - including references to the writer, quality, and content of the writing - were considered tangential to the point of being against the guidelines to discuss, then surely so would commenting that another comment is against the guidelines.