3 ms·
Can you change your username please. HN isn't Reddit.
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
Can you change your username please. HN isn't Reddit.
- kylestlb 11y agoUnfortunately, it's getting there...
- pc86 11y agoI know your account is over two years old, but: > If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- djsumdog 11y agoWhat's wrong with that person's username?
- ZenoArrow 11y ago1. Requesting pictures of boobs is crass. 2. You can't PM people in HN, so it makes no sense. I can see I got downvoted for suggesting it but I still stand by what I said. I didn't downvote the poster, I was just suggesting they reconsider.
- dang 11y agoTrolling encoded into usernames isn't any different from trolling in comment text, except it gets repeated everywhere. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11003123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11003123
- menacingly 11y agobizarrely entitled to ask a person to change their own username
- SwellJoe 11y agoI disagree. The community decides what the community will be, and there's nothing wrong with asking for someone to keep the level of discourse to something above that of jokes a 12 year old would make. I'd rather the community decide not to be the kind of place where novelty (mildly sexist) usernames are common. The conversation suffers when cheesy jokes are the norm. There are places and times for those kinds of things; many subreddits are totes down for "pm_me_X" novelty accounts. Take it there. I'm not saying jokes are wrong, but there's a reason the cheap joke and image meme is discouraged here. They tend to rise above the deeper comments, because they're quick and easy to digest, and so get a lot of upvotes because of it. But, as a community, we're deciding to favor the deeper comments...even at the expense of missing a few jokes and image memes in these conversations. If that kind of selection doesn't suit you, there are many places that don't impose those guidelines.