On: Dubai: How not to build a city

[mhb]

What makes this a suitable post?

[falsestprophet → mhb]

What makes this an interesting comment?

Someone posts your same urgent insight on every tenth story that makes the front page... Come on folks, please read the guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[mhb → falsestprophet]

Yeah. I read them and occasionally re-read them when I start thinking that the explanation for WTF these stories make it to the front page might be that the criteria have changed.

[falsestprophet → mhb]

You can improve your experience without polluting the comments.

Consider writing a greasemonkey script that filters domains that contain content that you don't want to see, then share the script with the community.

[mhb → falsestprophet]

That is beyond my abilities since, as a previous poster said, this is a potentially interesting topic but this article about it is completely uninteresting.

[netcan → mhb]

Interesting topic. Uninteresting article. Problematic trap.