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>Everyone in the audience has come to listen to your lecture with the secret hope of hearing their work mentioned. People are narcissistic as hell.

• LionessLover 10y ago
  Do you like it when I reply to your comment, thereby indicating that I read it, and by replying I further show that it was more important to me than many other comments I didn't reply to? That's what you were hoping for when you wrote your reply, didn't you? :-)
  • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
    Surely your comment only works if you're 'famous' on HN.
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    • LionessLover 10y ago
      So you think people comment and don't care if nobody ever responds to them? That they don't like getting reactions (not counting the negative ones - which of course according to you nobody cares about either, unless you are "famous" - because for some inexplicable reason(ing) only famous people like positive and fear negative responses)?
      • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
        No, people do like get a response as you suggest. I was trying to suggest as an analogue of the situation in the OP, that was being satirically commented on, that in order to properly mirror the situation your comment would need to come from someone with renown in the current locus. If people are really listening to the lecture hoping to be namechecked then it would be because they consider the lecturer to be a worthy in some way, surely?