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We strive to have a high signal to noise ratio on HN. There's nothing wrong with what you wrote, they are your emotions. However, please make an effort to tell
by goldenkey 11y ago
We strive to have a high signal to noise ratio on HN. There's nothing wrong with what you wrote, they are your emotions. However, please make an effort to tell us more about how you feel or your thoughts and comments on the post.
- sago 11y agoThere are times when subduing our emotions is important for quality communication. We should rise above our instincts. There are other times when the emotion is what needs to be communicated. When our instinct is to empathy, not tribalism. Subduing emotion at that point is inhuman.
- camillomiller 11y agoYeah, sorry, you are right, but that was probably the most sincere reply I could post, put in a very straight form. I had to stop reading, because it was too much.
- goldenkey 11y agoHey its all good mate. I realized I was a bit abrasive too. Maybe I was wrong, people seem to have some strong commentary some agreeing, others disagreeing.
- rbanffy 11y agoThis is signal. What is written, how it's written and what's not written because writing was overwhelming are all part of it.
- bcook 11y agoWe all cry at a funeral... that is not what the family or loved ones remember. They remember the speakers, the speeches that offer something useful to explain the occasion. No disrespect to the parent poster (or author) but... acknowledging that something that is obviously sad is actually sad is not a very useful observation.
- DasIch 11y agoWhy would the amount of time we consciously remember something, and this alone, define it's value?
- MacsHeadroom 11y agoCan you suggest a more interesting definition of value than "lasting impact on conscious experience"?
- DasIch 11y agoI don't think I can come up with a good definition that I would be perfectly happy with. I do believe however that everything you experience will to some degree have an impact on you, even if you don't necessarily form memories around them and are able to recall these experiences. Also especially with grief it seems important to share the emotions we have, so that we can understand our own emotions better and process them. It seems to me that precisely when we achieve that goal of processing grief the lasting impact is going to be less than it would be otherwise. That doesn't make the contributions and experiences that help process that grief any less valuable.
- ryanlol 11y agoI can't help but point out how ironic comments like this are.
- chris_wot 11y agoIf you think that's ironic, consider how ironic it is that I'm now posting about how ironic I find your post to be about responding to an ironic post.
- ryanlol 11y agoWhat's ironic about my post? I never implied that I agreed with goldenkey.
- goldenkey 11y agoI'd even argue that I was a prick. But since we are having the discussion anyhow, it would have been more academic or well..open, to see more entropy in his post. Less a vote with an emotion and more that plus a few lines of profession? But either way I skirt the line of freedom vs censorship..what makes some bytes of text inherently have more meaning than others if in basic english and comprehensible. I don't think theres much that we want to do about this except for practical reasons we need to arrange and display results for the user who only has so much time and of course we will show them the most relevant comments..by votes. Democracy usually works except when bots take over and waste peoples time detecting em
- dang 11y agoI don't see anything wrong with that comment. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627005 and marked it off-topic.