What is a problem with (modest and appreciated/upvoted) copy-pasting old, relevant posts? A strict policy against that could turn into a conversation consisting solely of links...
Disclaimer: It seems I am breaking the rules here, too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... And I disagree with such rules of course.
Speak for yourself: I get upvotes every time (up to 22).
> You don't have to stamp 'incorrect' on every comment you think is wrong
New people often make the same mistake about privacy and I choose to correct them, because I think it's very important. It never was about "keeping the discussion going" for me. Quite the opposite, actually.
It's mostly a classical "nothing to hide argument" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument), which is unbelievably popular, sadly. There are hundreds of threads trying to explain it to someone every month, with all the same arguments, reworded. My posts stop this repeated discussions, because nobody found a counterpoint (yet?). From this reasoning, I believe it's worth to copy-paste instead of ignoring (and letting the discussion go the same way again), or linking (and loosing the attention of most observers who, quite reasonably, don't want to click a lot).
People upvote things that are bad for the forum all the time, hence the rules and the moderation.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
It's mostly a classical "nothing to hide argument"
It's still a thing you classically shouldn't do here.
I don't believe so. I'm not dismissing your arguments, it's just that here, this argument has been argued and settled. Your particular approach has been found not to improve discussion (as explained in exhaustive detail) so to participate meaningfully, you gotta avoid it for reasons that go well beyond just the act of pasting:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You can mail the mods and ask if you want to be quintuple sure, they're plenty responsive.
Meanwhile, I will assume that I'm doing a good thing. I don't see how your link provides an explanation "in exhaustive detail". What are "canned response" even are? When someone says "I have nothing to hide", any response might be considered as canned - so is it better to let people be unaware?