Comment by dang

I believe you! The problem is that intent is invisible and what really matters in the threads is not intent, but effects. The IPD thing just has reliably bad effects, so it's best to avoid.

We can't add things like that to the guidelines because there are too many of them. I posted a bit about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620847 - if it helps at all.