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Website design is arguably not tangential to a discussion about website design, which is the only thing that the guidelines discourage.

If someone indulges on a beef steak while talking about something, that would be tangential in most circumstances, except when the talk is about the benefits of veganism. You're creating a strong dissonance between your message and your mode of delivery.

What the guidelines do discourage, however, is commenting on whether the article has been read.



It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content beside being a really predictable and repetitive (notice how it's in three separate bottom comments in this thread) gotcha on top of 'how can I take it seriously' itself being just a bombastic trope.

is commenting on whether the article has been read.

They do, which is why I didn't.


> It's tangential to the ideas expressed in the content

One of the ideas expressed in the content is to use HTML tables for styling and aligning content - using grid and flexboxes flies in the face of that suggestion.




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