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Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

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It's so tiresome to read this on every twitter thread that gets posted to HN

Downvote and flag them. Be the punitive fist of messageboard justice you want to see in the world!

But you agree, don't you?

Completely beside the point. It's exasperating to see an identical tangent on every discussion.

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