HN Personal Attacks

This cluster centers on moderators and users repeatedly warning against personal attacks in comments, emphasizing that they violate Hacker News guidelines regardless of provocation.

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Sample Comments

lsaferite Oct 24, 2025 View on HN

You should probably stop resorting to personal attacks as it's against hn rules.

tomhow Aug 6, 2025 View on HN

This kind of personally-attacking comment is against the guidelines on HN, no matter what you're replying to. We've asked you before to avoid posting comments that break the guidelines, so it's annoying to have to ask you again. HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to keep the standards up. Please do your part if you want to keep participating here. https:/&

dang Feb 15, 2017 View on HN

This comment crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN regardless of how wrong someone is. Please don't post like this.

sctb Mar 29, 2017 View on HN

No matter what you're replying to, personal attacks like this are not OK on HN.

sctb Jan 23, 2017 View on HN

Please no personal attacks like this on HN, no matter what you're replying to.

sctb Jan 9, 2017 View on HN

Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.

dang Mar 13, 2018 View on HN

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong someone may be. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?

sctb Oct 22, 2016 View on HN

This crosses the line into a personal attack, and is not OK on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.

dang Mar 18, 2017 View on HN

You can't attack another commenter personally like this, regardless of how wrong they are. Please don't do this on HN again.

sctb Dec 11, 2016 View on HN

No matter what you're replying to, personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News.