You have many years of experience creating accounts to post like this, as well as to break HN's rules in countless other ways, so I assume the question is rhetorical.
replyBecause new user, ostensibly bad faith, throwing short cliched statements with no clear intent to start a meaningful discussion.
replySeemingly effortless comments yelling to the void not worth starting a conversation with. Not the kind of comments that belongs or are wanted in this platform.
I flag uninteresting comments, such as yours.
replyI'd say this comment fails the "Be kind. Don't be snarky" test. Wouldn't you? If we're appealing to the rules to justify our actions it puts a bigger burden on ourselves to make sure we're perfectly in line with them too :)
replyFor that we have downvotes, not flags.
replyTrue. But this comment broke guidelines as well. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
replyModeration here sucks and doesn't really work well imho.
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