Discussing why parsing HTML SCRIPT elements is so complicated, the history of why it became the way it is, and how to safely and securely embed JSON content inside of a SCRIPT element today.
Discussing why parsing HTML SCRIPT elements is so complicated, the history of why it became the way it is, and how to safely and securely embed JSON content inside of a SCRIPT element today.
This was my first submission, and the above comment was what I added to the text box. It wasn’t clear to me what the purpose was, but it seemed like it would want an excerpt. I only discovered after submitting that it created this comment.
I guess people just generally don’t add those?
Still, to help me out, could someone clarify why this was down-voted? I don’t want to mess up again if I did, but I don't understand what that was.
I think its just because as a comment it looks pretty random and somewhat off topic since its a summary of the article instead of an opinion on it.
I think most of the time people dont add a comment to submissions, but if they do its more of the form: I found X interesting because of [insert non obvious reason why X is interesting] or some additional non-obvious context needed.
In any case, i don't think there is any reason to worry too much. There was no ill intent and at the end of the day its all just fake internet points.
I don't know, but I see early posts which look like AI bot summaries (presumably to collect karma). Probably not necessary for a link.
> Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion. If there is no url, text will appear at the top of the thread. If there is a url, text is optional.
Most people will opt for text to be optional with a link - unless they're showing their own product (Show HN). Because there is an expectation that you will attempt to read an article, before conversing about it.