Comment by dang
6 days ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Is there a similar rule for submissions, or are submitters exempt from adopting HN culture? "Please don't submit shallow arguments, specially criticizing other people's work?"
Because we've recently been getting a series of low quality submissions which obviously drive low quality discussion, but for some reason it's only the commenters who get reprimanded, as if the submissions weren't ruining the mood one by one.
(And to clarify, I haven't been warned, I'm not writing this out of spite.)
You can flag submissions that you think don't belong on Hacker News. Other than that it's best to just turn your attention to other stories that do interest you.