Comment by dang

We ask commenters to stick to the guidelines regardless of what someone else is doing or you feel they're doing (I don't mean you personally, of course, but all of us). It's the only way this place even has a chance, because it always feels like the other person started it and also did worse.

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But I think you'd be wise to drop this idea of a "field disadvantage". HN threads aren't supposed to be a football game, a tank battle, or anything else where that image would fit. It's not about defeating opponents or, as I used to say, smiting enemies. It's about maximizing interestingness, to put it clumsily.

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