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The best part about that RegEx answer is the moderator's note at the bottom.

> Moderator's Note

> This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention.

From back in the day when Stack Overflow was fun.

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Hi lolinder, welcome to HackerNews. Your comment implies that Stack Overflow isn't currently fun. You are of course well within your rights to make that assertion. However, I find that your comment may be improved by removing any implication that Stack Overflow isn't fun. So I invite you to explain your reasons and maybe consider future improving edits to your post.

This is almost too polite to be Stack Exchange satire.

I feel like a lot of commenters here mistake passive-aggression for politness.

Well I guess some of us just have a higher tolerance for passive-aggression.

… ;)

Nowadays it seems like every other comment on Stack Exchange is full of forced and phony politeness. That's in their rules too.

A bit like HN in that regard.

Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been [moved to chat].

Here is a comment that must be helpful because it got upvoted, but it's impossible to understand because the sibling comment it replies to is hidden somewhere at the bottom of the comment list.

Locked. Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034160#39035348

Hmm, I recently thought it would be a great idea to answer a question on SO again, and did that by first posting a link. Then I realized how useless that would be if the link disappeared, so I clicked edit and pasted the actual info.

All this took like 20 seconds, but the hounds had already descended. Someone had posted a note on an answer that was literally 20 seconds old saying that it could be improved.

When I responded with an offended comment they deleted all their comments, and I lost the ability to report them.

That was the first, and also the last time in the past 4 years I thought to post anything there.

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You wanted to report them for asking you to do the thing that you also thought had to be done? What would you even report them for? Giving valid criticism? Responding quickly?

There is something like malicious compliance. And just being mean spirited in general.

I miss those days. I tried to go back there now and discovered things had escalated up to Wikipedia tier deletionism.

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