Another way to look at this is that we want reflective comments rather than reflexive ones*. Reflex means predictable and predictable means tedious. Tedium is really what we're trying to avoid on HN—not criticisms of monarchy. I'd have thought that was painfully obvious, but I realize it's neither so obvious nor so painful to people who don't deal with it full time.

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