Except the letter of the rule makes it verboten even “if it never gets in the way of the humans communicate”.
> HN has always been a spirit-of-the-law place, and—contrary to the "technically correct is the best correct" mentality that many of us share—we consciously resist the temptation to make them too precise.
That is from dang's post in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616
That whole post is clarifying for the intent of the new rule(s).
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> HN has always been a spirit-of-the-law place, and—contrary to the "technically correct is the best correct" mentality that many of us share—we consciously resist the temptation to make them too precise.
That is from dang's post in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616
That whole post is clarifying for the intent of the new rule(s).