Tom and I of course agree! But it's not so easy to disallow things, since humans do $thing anyway.

Most probably the long-term solution is for the community to express this preference by flagging comments that do this. I think we see signs of that happening, which is good, because a community solution is better than a technical solution (and way better than an authority solution) any day.

Btw, tapirl is a good contributor and I don't think they did anything particularly wrong. It just takes time for us all to learn the optimal patterns together.