Yeah, but this article is about SCO v IBM settling. The last quiet dying gasps of things that entertained and educated us 15-20 years ago and we barely realised still existed are kind of on-topic. Now I wonder what happened to kuro5hin.
That's a stupid rule. I'm glad for the warning, because now I know not to click it. Formatting is one thing, and I and see why griping about that is boring. "Caution Dark Patterns Ahead" is a useful warning.
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting."
UPDATE: Right now 43% of the comments on this story are about the site's back-button behavior.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html