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>>xd+(OP)
All: please don't post flamebait, including ranting against monarchy or railing against "the nobility" like it's 1770. Such reflexive comments are not on topic here. We want curious conversation. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This story is on topic because it's a major historical event and history has always been on topic here. If it doesn't produce an intellectually curious response in you, you're welcome to find something else that does—there are plenty of other things to read—but in that case please refrain from posting.

Positive-empty comments aren't substantive either, but as pg pointed out way back when HN was getting started (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html), those are benign. The comments we need to avoid are the malignant ones.

Edit: by positive-empty I just meant comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769019

I'm not telling you guys to be royalists! I'm just asking you not to post crap comments, which this thread was filled with when I first saw it. We don't care what you're for or against, we just care about people using HN as intended.

Edit 2: I think the problem is that this comment has outlived its usefulness at the top of the thread because the bottom of the barrel comments have mostly been moderated away, whether by user flags or by us. I'm going to unpin this and mark it offtopic now. Please don't post any more bottom-of-barrel comments!—and if you see some, please flag them.

>>dang+Bh
dang, Paul Graham is British; has it factored into your decision of keeping the comments deferential to the Queen.

My condolences to British people who held the Queen at high esteem. But frankly world is a bigger place than Britain and America. Not everyone from the British former colonies will appreciate the Queen. if they express the feelings about the monarchy in a respectful way; do you see an issue?

>>ginger+id1
There was no "decision of keeping the comments deferential to the Queen". In any case, PG having been born in Britain does not factor into any decisions on HN.

I believe I've answered your other question in a few places:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32772419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771874

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32772067

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770946

... as well as in the comment you're replying to (starting at "I'm not telling you guys to be royalists!"). If you read those comments and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.