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You wrote guidelines! (But still the only way to find out about them is to violate a few. Ex post facto.)

They are linked in the footer appearing on nearly every page of HN (and have been for years). Comments about downvotes are explicitly addressed in them, so not much room for interpretation there either.

They're also suggested next to the text entry box for new accounts.

http://imgur.com/a/R1wyo

If you continue to post uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments, we will ban you.

Do what you gotta do, dang, according to you're taste. According to my taste, flagging on a polite and irrefutable comment is what's uncivil and/or unsusbstantive. There's no recourse other than to say something so that's what I gotta do. Thanks.

The controversial statement that started this was:

> Perhaps rather anecdotal, but this is why I joined Uber, and did not take my Facebook or Google offers. It feels nice to work on tech that directly impacts lives and how a persons day flows. As opposed to, as you correctly put it, optimizing click bait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879917

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