It is also said that these guidelines are an effort to prevent the Eternal Septe...

It is also said that these guidelines are an effort to prevent the Eternal September that afflicted Usenet (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News)

What can happen in practice: more and more people filtering the posts they comment on using any of the techniques described on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960762