gratuitously

I don't mean to take away from it needlessly or criticize gratuitously, but if you watch the video you can see the water turbulence is still unrealistic.

Michael, what you've just written is a gratuitously negative comment[1] that adds nothing.

And, in the case of print statement --> print function, gratuitously annoying.

All you'd do is produce more people writing gratuitously incompatible scripts.

Yes, I'm being negative about a gratuitously negative article, so it's a net positive.

I politely object to you pissing all over any country that isn't the US with false claims and I'm being gratuitously negative?

I agree that this is gratuitously restrictive, and evidently the Python developers did too.

It violates both important rules of HN comments: civility (it truly is gratuitously negative) and substance, because it impedes the absorption of real information in your comment.

It isn't gratuitously negative to claim or discuss weakness.

To do otherwise is naive and gratuitously stupid.

Quoting from the post, gratuitously, with minor modifications.

Please don't be gratuitously provocative in comments here.

Usually there is no business case (see "don't gratuitously change code").

Like "honest", "deceptive", "gratuitously negative".

I think you missed this part: "Apparently you will allow links to be posted repeatedly even after they’ve been voted down if it’s “gratuitously negative” of me, but take anything about one of your shitty startups down immediately.

What I don't expect, is that dang remembers every possible YC startup (or has some userscript highlight all mentions of their names for him or something), and then deletes posts if-and-only-if they're both "gratuitously negative" and about a YC company.