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Is it possible to stuff more purple prose into a single article? For a laugh, try reading out loud in a Keira Knightley accent. Puke.

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Please don't post this sort of snarky dross to HN, regardless of how bad an article is. The article may not deserve better, but this community deserves better if you're contributing to it.

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

Edit: unfortunately, it looks like you've been doing a lot of this. Could you please not? We're trying for something else on this site.

Why is it against the community guidelines to point out bad writing?

It isn't.

So what, you’re upset about the way I’m expressing my response to the writing? Exercising censure on my censure, as it were.

That's closer. We don't want snark here because it's much less interesting than it feels and because it makes the community nasty. Since that's the default outcome for internet forums, it takes conscious effort to cultivate the opposite.

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