Comment on Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids PythonComments−ghostly_s4yThis may well be an effective way to learn to code but god, it sure doesn't seem like a way to have any fun.−dang4yPlease follow the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html as well as the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I'm sure you meant no harm, but comments like this have a way of poisoning the culture, especially when they get upvoted to the top of the page, as they often do.−ghostly_s4yI don't think my comment broke any rules, and I have a hard time taking you seriously when I compare the reality of what goes on here day in day out to the fantasy world of the supposed guidelines.−dang4yI would say your GP comment was a putdown and therefore gratuitously negative.Obviously a lot of commenters break the guidelines but that doesn't make it ok to break them more.−throwaway47292OP4yapparently fun is subjective :D
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This may well be an effective way to learn to code but god, it sure doesn't seem like a way to have any fun.
Please follow the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html as well as the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I'm sure you meant no harm, but comments like this have a way of poisoning the culture, especially when they get upvoted to the top of the page, as they often do.
I don't think my comment broke any rules, and I have a hard time taking you seriously when I compare the reality of what goes on here day in day out to the fantasy world of the supposed guidelines.
I would say your GP comment was a putdown and therefore gratuitously negative.
Obviously a lot of commenters break the guidelines but that doesn't make it ok to break them more.
apparently fun is subjective :D