Isn't this the kind of comment discussed directly in the post? Perhaps I'm feed the trolls, but honestly, knock it off unless you have something useful to add.
I really don't like navel gazing posts. "How much traffic I got from HN", "What I learned from being on the front page", "How I was brewing my coffee when I hit the front page", etc. This is self-centric bullshit that may with some effort be turned into an interesting discussion, but it is not inherently interesting, leave alone being notable. It's neither N nor is it H.
Why do you think that commenting on these articles, especially with strongly negative content free sentences, is the right thing to do?
> I really don't like navel gazing posts. "How much traffic I got from HN", "What I learned from being on the front page", "How I was brewing my coffee when I hit the front page", etc. This is self-centric bullshit that may with some effort be turned into an interesting discussion, but it is not inherently interesting, leave alone being notable. It's neither N nor is it H.
The fact that those posts are so common, and voted up, seem to imply that for many people they are inherently interesting.
But let's assume that you're correct. Your options are to flag, to ignore, to add to the signal, or to add to the noise. You chose to add to the noise! That feels really sub-optimal to me.
I posted what I did to dissuade the OP from submitting similar junk to HN in the future. Flagging and ignoring doesn't have quite the same effect as it aims at the effect, not the cause.
Clearly the moderators frowned on this sort of behaviour, so you lost your ability to flag articles. Like I say, don't do that.
Yes, sir.