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"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

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There's also the uncollected-garbage problem, which this case is a good example of.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

While I'm generally on board with this principle, I felt, given the nature of the conversation, this was a particularly egregious instance. Besides, sometimes new users can use a reminder. I'm generally not a fan of absolutist rules as they always tend to break down in some corner cases doing more harm than good (though of course we can disagree whether this was such a case). Either way, thank you for your reminder to my reminder :)

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