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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.

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

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.