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The fact the font choice is always the biggest subthread in these stories really says a lot about HN...
by throwaway2048 11y ago
The fact the font choice is always the biggest subthread in these stories really says a lot about HN...
- scott_karana 11y agoOr, it just means that a lot of people here are designers. :P
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoOr more likely that people here have picked up on the fact that negative opinions on comic sans are a signifier for community membership.
- scrollaway 11y agoIt says there's more people who can comment on font choices than on SSL internals (I'm one of those people, btw - no shame in not knowing advanced crypto). I'm pretty sure this is the same lesson you draw from the original "bikeshed" story, so it's doing its job pretty well.
- digi_owl 11y agoSeen the same over on Ars Technica. Science section article, maybe one or two pages of commments most of the time. Social science article, watch it explode to 20+ pages easily. Or just now on /r/science, an article on porn and the watchers views on women. 1000+ comments easily. We should not really be surprised that MSM is the way it is, low hanging fruits and all that...