non-contributive

For future reference, you're being downvoted because Hacker News has traditionally looked down upon non-contributive, vacuous one-word comments.

If you don't care what he had to think, your comment is both paradoxical and non-contributive.

It's probably coming from frustration with non-contributive commentary, of which the topmost comment unquestionably qualifies.

Many many many people are on the sprinkle-on-some-AI-and-get-rich path, but it's just incredibly non-contributive to the field, to expanding the frontier to me.

It's depressing to see all their passion directed at something non-contributive like sports.

Let's get rid of all the non-contributive activities.

And if you try to cut the money printer (without taking some.huge debt), you have to squash the deficit, which is mostly subsidies to electricity, gas and public transport, and non-contributive retirements.

Let's reset: I think the downvote should be used for low-effort, non-contributive comments like "lol" and "^this".

Implicit in my "I don't _think_ it particularly negatively affects anyone" was "I don't believe that seeing occasional non-contributive comments are a strong negative effect", but you're right to call it out explicitly.