Be kind. Don't be snarky.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks for sharing those other guidelines.

Some could feel my comment escape them from it’s tone and it will be wonderful if you or someone else share a better way to say what I said. I’m doing my best to not hurt others, which sometimes is seen as coldness. Which I admit is not kind.

I can offer no better words for you, however can offer advice which I myself shall no heed.

Vote accordingly and proceed onward. If collectively a negligible fraction also do the same then the results might just surprise. Ostracism is a powerful tool, while not always used for good, it does serve a purpose in society.

Thanks, that is an idea I didn’t have and worth considering. Exclusion traumatized me in the past and that still haunts everyday. I didn’t thought it can be used for good.

It's likely that in this community actually substanceless comments will be down-voted. That on the other hand is very upvoted comment by the community, so I think it shouldn't be met with such criticism.

That says "Please don't post substanceless one-liners here."

The joke was _two_ sentences, and I, for one, appreciated it.

If you're going to quote regulations, make sure to bring a gun to a gun fight!

Well I think "one-liner" here adds more weight to "substanceless" and was not indented to be taken literally:

- it has no useful meaning in a media you can resize.

- adding dots (.) does not noticeably change the meaning, you could replace with a comma : "Oh thanks goodness, I new…", allowing cheating on the fight rules. I don’t think that’s desirable way we want to interact as a HN-user-community (personal opinion)

- taking the literal read anyway, I see one line and two sentences right now. It’s a one liner. (not English native, may I missed a secondary meaning?)

Dang clarify it bellow the post in linked and cite scott_s, none of which talking about the length of the joke but both referring to noise.

I personally also found it funny BUT I also saw like 10 substanceless not-so-funny jokes today on HN. INHM problem is not the joke itself but the emptiness of the post if you take the joke aside.

Well, seeing as GP is still visible 20h later, I’d say not enough people share this view.

Which is good, IMO, since one important property of a social system is flexibility.