The guidelines are short enough that they could go on the actual http://news.ycombinator.com/submit page or at the very least there should be a link to http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html there.

Whoever you are, notakarmawhore, thanks for registering a dummy account to do this. Personally, I am far less annoyed by down-voting, trolling and bias, than I am by the people who are increasingly using "community" posts to bump their karma.

In particular, the "Ask YC/Ask PG" posts ("Ask PG: what color is your belly button lint?") were cool at first, but lately, they're contributing less signal, and more noise.

Its good (s)he put this up. It does clarify things, and many people have missed it.

For example, I only saw these guidelines for first time 11hrs ago, and I've been here for 39 days.

How is this hacker news?

Could you give more details what's wrong?

I much prefer the actual aggression that results in people seeming rude when they forcefully present their views to this sort of passive aggression.

would have more effect if written by PG or nickb, instead a person who has 12 karma and created their account an hour ago. I'm not saying this community doesn't need a refresher in discipline but who is this guy to give it.