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You grow up in a place where people ceremoniously raise and lower flags as symbolic tributes. Here, we just see a black bar. So you're okay with these threads
by orbitur 11y ago
You grow up in a place where people ceremoniously raise and lower flags as symbolic tributes. Here, we just see a black bar.
So you're okay with these threads every time there's a black bar?
- raldi 11y agoIf you saw a mourning family on the street wearing all black, would you suggest they hold up a sign with the name of the deceased?
- Mithaldu 11y agoExcept this is the equivalent of wearing a black hat. My father used to occasionally do it when the mood struck him and nobody bothered to think it signified anything.
- orbitur 11y agoNo, but at least I'd know they intended a public display of mourning. Whenever I've seen the black bar before this thread, it's just been a black bar. I thought something was screwy with the CSS or maybe my version of Chrome. The black bar is not at all obvious in its intent. I don't see why it should remain that way.
- geofft 11y agoIf I'm in that family and I have no idea who died and why they dressed me in black, absolutely! The fundamental problem with the non-discoverability is that it means that you're either one of the in-group people who knows who Andy Grove is and that he died yesterday, or you're an outsider and not a real Hacker News family member. If that's the approach to community HN wants to take, that's fine, but then why are there three stories about Andy Grove's death if all the real HN commenters already know that?