> and creating screenfuls to wade through before on-topic content,
replyIt's often just a single root comment that you can collapse.
I find how svg drawing skills improve over time interesting. Very simple and very small datapoint. But I still find value in it.
No more disruptive than this comment. If you don't like it, downvote and move on. It's on topic and doesn't contradict the rules. The reason you see Simon's comment on the top is because people like it and upvote it.
replyOur comments are no more disruptive, so we shouldn't write them.
The other comments are at most as disruptive & fine.
replySomething seems off when I combine those premises.
You also make a key observation here: the root comment is fine and on-topic. The the replies spin off into nothing to do with the headline, but the example in the comment. Makes it really hard to critique with coming across as fun police.
Also, worth noting there's a distinction here, we're not in simonw's thread: we're in a brand new account's imitation of it.