"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
I think name complaints are actually more reasonable here than they often are, especially as demonstrated in this comment you’re responding to: a search engine has to concern itself with such matters, so when a search engine deliberately names itself provocatively⸻
Anyway, I’m stopping there. I just thought this perspective worth mentioning.
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html