We've banned this account for posting several egregious comments in the past few days. (This one isn't the worst; I'm just commenting here because it's the most recent.) This account holder has a history over several years of registering new accounts and continuing to post in blatant breach of the guidelines. Please stop wasting everyone's time with this practice. Very few people see the comments.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
The guidelines still apply, even if you feel negatively towards a project and its creator. Indeed it's even more important to make the effort to heed the guidelines for topics you feel negatively towards (after all, it's easy to be respectful about things we feel positively towards).
How do they get comments without being on the front page? :)
A post just needs to get a handful of organic upvotes soon after submission, to get near the top of the front page. And submissions can easily stay on the front page for hours without much discussion. They just have to be interesting enough that people consider them worthy of an upvote.
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