Criticizing Bad Comments
This cluster consists of comments harshly dismissing and insulting other Hacker News comments as nonsense, ignorant, ridiculous, pointless, or worthless.
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Sample Comments
This comment is utter nonsense.
Such a worthless comment. Can you keep this kind of invective off HN?
This is a pretty ignorant comment.
Wow, that comment was pretty pointless.
I am impressed with the level of nonsense in this comment.
I am impressed with the level of nonsense in this comment.
Literally a ridiculous comment.
Sorry but that comment is just BS.
This is such a ridiculous comment...
This is an uncharacteristically dumb comment from you.