Please Don't

I noticed that there are two "Please don't..." articles on the front page right now:

- Please don't unofficially ship Bottles in distribution repositories (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658086)

- Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651086)

Both seem like reasonable requests that I am pretty sure I will comply with. It made me curious how common this pattern is. Pretty common, it turns out.

I like that Drew DeVault begging us to not use the new cool chat service for FOSS projects every few years is becoming a thing. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712098 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013136)

Another interesting pattern is that 7 of the top 30 results are from the last year or so. I wonder why.

Edit, not so weird since stories get more and more points over time (I guess?). Here's the stats (5 points or more, has the words "please don't" somewhere in the title):

    2007 1
    2008 3
    2009 3
    2010 6
    2011 8
    2012 14
    2013 10
    2014 14
    2015 4
    2016 14
    2017 6
    2018 9
    2019 10
    2020 5
    2021 13
    2022 8

The one from 2007: https://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-steal-my-focus/

Algolia, please don't display nothing when JavaScript is disabled...