Yes—it was a good submission, but the submitted title ("The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)") broke the site guidelines badly, and this thread shows what a dramatic effect that can have on the comments.
We've reverted it now, so perhaps nature will heal itself, but it's amazing what an effect titles have on discussion. That's why, on HN, titles are not the prerogative of the submitter: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
(Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be a pattern with theanonymousone's submissions. At least not from the random sample I took a quick look at.)
We've reverted it now, so perhaps nature will heal itself, but it's amazing what an effect titles have on discussion. That's why, on HN, titles are not the prerogative of the submitter: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
(Fortunately, this doesn't seem to be a pattern with theanonymousone's submissions. At least not from the random sample I took a quick look at.)