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It really doesn't matter, I will make my own internet.
by philip142au 11y ago
It really doesn't matter, I will make my own internet.
- hippo8 11y agoWith blackjack and hookers.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- clusterfoo 11y agoSo... the Internet.
- hellbanner 11y agoUnapolgetically meta, but has anyone else noticed the rise of what I'll call "Reddit style" comments on HN recently? Subjectively, I've noticed more and more joke comment threads that a year ago, were never seen here.
- DanBC 11y agoYes. It's not just new accounts either.
- hellbanner 11y agoYou think that discussion naturally tends towards "let's not take this seriously and I like being funny", so it's destined overtime?
- DanBC 11y agoI don't know. I just suddenly started seeing a bunch of pun threads. A year or so ago they would have been downvoted and had people making polite posts about how that kind of thing isn't welcome here. But these didn't seem to have downvotes. I have no idea if they got flags or not. Maybe I just started noticing something that's been here a long time? It'd be interesting to see if mods noticed anything.
- random_rr 11y agoYou are not alone. Lots of comments on HMM in the past 4-5 months have been low effort, half hearted cynical reddit fare. The community has done a pretty good job of policing the tone here, but it's certainly becoming noticeable. This frightens me - I'm sure most people here are familiar with the quality of discussion of any reasonably large subreddit. The idea of that happening here is not enjoyable.
- hellbanner 11y agoGlad to hear some consensus on this. I've been flagging low-quality comments but the sudden & sharp increase in reddit-style comments worries me. Curious if any mods have noticed this as well?
- cronjobber 11y ago> low effort Of course, HN's habit of downvoting posts because of disagreement punishes effort. What do you expect?
- hellbanner 11y agoWell, a year ago I'd see "low effort" jokes or simple statements downvoted or removed. I'd see many discussions which had disagreeing replies one after the other, all positively voted. So perhaps "Hn's habit of downvoting" has evolved over the years.
- shpx 11y agoI absolutely have. It could be that reddit trains people to automatically think of puns for social gratification. It could be also because HN is basically a subreddit, and people automatically associate this format with puns and cynical one liners. It's been known since the days of BBS's that communities get worse as they get bigger.
- neppo 11y agoThat's the exact reason why I moved away from reddit some time ago. Reddit used to have insightful comments and debate, but it deteriorated into knee jerk one liners and pun threads (at least in the main subs) Sadly the same trend is noticeable on hackernews too lately, still very rarely but it seems to become more common.