| ▲ | selykg 4 days ago |
| The ... can be read as sounding very dismissive. But also, it really didn't add anything to the discussion even if that wasn't the intention. Hence the second point I added from the guidelines. So, I see two potential areas of improvement. |
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| ▲ | pvg 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Getting all guideliney on fluffy positive comments mostly defeats the purpose of getting all guideliney - the billowing clouds of meta that tends to generate are worse (guideline-worse, no less!) than the fluffy comment itself. |
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| ▲ | selykg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Possibly, but "Cool..." is hardly adding any value, whatsoever. In this case the poster should've simply said nothing unless they had something of value to say. This is sort of the second point I was quoting. There are a number of points in the guidelines that try to get people to add value to the conversation. > the billowing clouds of meta that tends to generate are worse (guideline-worse, no less!) than the fluffy comment itself. Well, at the end of the day you contributed to that with your own comment. | | |
| ▲ | pvg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | is hardly adding any value, whatsoever. Yes but they are explicitly accounted for in the site docs/design/intent, from waaaay back: Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html And pop up in moderation comments https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... | | |
| ▲ | dataflow 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." I'm pretty sure they meant saying "Thanks." in response to another comment, not as a top-level comment reply to a Show HN. Kind of like how you wouldn't bust into a restaurant and say a loud "Thanks." to the entire room, despite it being perfectly fine to say thanks in a restaurant. | | |
| ▲ | pvg 4 days ago | parent [-] | | You can see the this covered in the mod comments, toplevel positive fluff is fine. Most of it doesn't go anywhere (as in, it's not like these end up the top of the thread and collect fluffreplies) and are, at a minimum, not worth policing. |
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| ▲ | jannyfer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| OP seems to be Japanese, so the ellipsis is unlikely to be meant as dismissive. |
