"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
One reason we have those guidelines is that comments like this tend to get upvoted to the top of threads, where they sit gathering mass, letting off fumes, and choking out more interesting discussion. That's where this one was when I saw it a moment ago. Unfortunately, it takes manual intervention to do anything about, which is scarce and intermittent at best.
"Please don't fulminate."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One reason we have those guidelines is that comments like this tend to get upvoted to the top of threads, where they sit gathering mass, letting off fumes, and choking out more interesting discussion. That's where this one was when I saw it a moment ago. Unfortunately, it takes manual intervention to do anything about, which is scarce and intermittent at best.