> I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid.
The way to do that is to simply flag the submissions you think don't belong here, and that's it.
From HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.