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KernelBrief comments are text-only, moderated, source-friendly, and closer to Hacker News norms than social-media argument threads.
What belongs here
- Technical context from direct experience.
- Primary-source links, corrections, and implementation details.
- Careful disagreement that explains tradeoffs.
- Questions that make the topic more precise.
What gets rejected
- Snark, flamebait, pile-ons, identity attacks, and low-effort dunking.
- AI-generated comments or promotional filler.
- Images, uploads, embedded media, SVG, iframe, video, audio, object, and raw HTML.
- Rumors or vulnerability claims without source evidence.
Moderation model
- All launch-phase comments, including trusted-user comments, stay pending or hidden until moderator review.
- Trust levels are recorded for moderation context and future queue prioritization, not auto-publication.
- Threads support hot, top, new, and old sorting, permalinks, collapse controls, upvotes, and flags.
- Moderators can approve, reject, remove, hide, ban, trust, and audit actions.