then please enlighten me: what does the sentence mean?

Can you please stop posting in the cross-examining, flamewar style? It's not what this site is for. We want people to learn from each other here.

what exactly is the acceptable style of discourse here then? purely exultant tropes and clickbait i guess.

	▲	dang 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Does https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html not answer that? There are plenty of acceptable styles. The guidelines don't insist on only one style.