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Comment by elashri

1 day ago

Hi Tom, since you are here. It seems that my comment, the GOP is flagged and I think this is a case of flag abuse. Can you help with that?

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tomhow  20 hours ago

That was an unsubstantive comment, that started a generic tangent, and veers onto the wrong side of these parts of the guidelines:

Don't be snarky. Converse curiously

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

I understand you probably didn't know that or may not accept the assessment, and that's fine, but please know that we consider it important that comments should be about the article's primary topic and that they activate curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • elashri  15 hours ago

    Thanks for explaining that, you are probably right.

    • tomhow  10 hours ago

      Thanks for understanding. I know it can feel like a bummer when your comment was at the top of the thread, getting lots of upvotes and replies, only to see it suddenly buried lower down the thread.

      The main issue for us is just about relevance. The topic of the post is the 4GB model installed with Chrome. That's what the top comment and discussion needs to be about.

      Of course, your comment, being about a competing browser, isn't completely irrelevant, it's just not the most relevant issue or the most important one to discuss in seeking to understand the primary topic. It's not an egregious breach of the guidelines – hence I said "veers onto the wrong side". I think you get it.

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