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I think it's more that his comment did not contribute to the conversation in any way, as per HN guidelines. The idea is to keep the threads as clean of superfluous answers as possible.

Exactly, the comment in question is basically a noisy upvote.

I agree it is noisy and apologize for being too concise (I hoped it was clear it frustates) but find it concerning there is no agreement it should have been there. No rules for that? old articles need to he dated. videos needs to be tagged.

I added the comment as it is a clear omission and did not get revised by moderators. open source feels like to draw people in, but then you find out it is platform specific/mac-only. If this was there, it would have saved me and others time by ignoring it.

> Weird you're getting downvoted to agreeing with something that definitely should be there.

"Me too" responses are generally discouraged, unless they add extra detail/nuance or other related information to the thread. If all you are doing is agreeing, that is what the upvote button is for.

In some places a "me too" or "this!" response has extra effect, in places like Facebook a comment is now likely to spread attention around your contacts for instance, but not here.

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