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Please refrain from starting and continuing "comment chains". It's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
by sikosmurf 10y ago
Please refrain from starting and continuing "comment chains". It's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
- mightypirate 10y agoyour reprehend motivated me to donate
- karim 10y agoI disagree. I think it's important to show that multiple people decided to donate because of this single comment. It's prompted me to donate to Let's Encrypt.
- dizzy3gg 10y agoI also donated I think the feeling of missing out helped sway the decision.
- snikeris 10y agoI just donated, but only because the thread got this deep.
- joshmanders 10y agoIs there any other way to donate but with PayPal? I want to but not through PayPal.
- CaptSpify 10y agothat's what the up-vote button is for
- mark-r 10y agoThe upvote count is kept private, so it doesn't serve the same purpose of indicating public support for a comment. Unfortunately meta discussions are frowned upon too, so I shouldn't have made this comment either.
- CaptSpify 10y agoAh, thanks. I guess I never realized that it was private.
- tomstockmail 10y agoPlease refrain from telling people what is not funny. It's not polite and doesn't add to the conversation.
- tomc1985 10y agoPlease refrain from "rules lawyering". It's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
- davesque 10y agoPlease refrain from unnecessary humor-policing. It's not helpful and only detracts from the sense of community.
- 7UenehWG 10y agoIt's not humor-policing to point out that HN has a different culture and comments serve a different purpose here. I like pun threads - but I go to /r/jokes when I want them. Here, I expect a certain sort of signal - insight from experienced and intelligent people working hard on interesting technical problems. This isn't to say that humor should be verboten, or pun threads strictly banned - but they're definitely not what HN has been about historically, and arguably should not be encouraged if we want HN to continue serving whatever role it serves. There are more places like /r/jokes than HN on the net, after all.
- davesque 10y agoThat's fine. I disagree with that policy and this is my way of expressing it.
- mwambua 10y agoI don't want to be petty... but your comment would have a lot more weight if you made it with your primary account. That said, I agree with all your points... but we're humans... Even if most of our time is spent on science, we still get amused by the most silly of things; and if those things help support LetsEncrypt... Hurrah!
- giancarlostoro 10y agoI'm assuming they don't have a primary, or they rather avoid the downvotes that people give without actually giving any actual feedback.
- mangeletti 10y agoIt's one thing to have rules, but don't confuse rule following with culture. Culture is emergent, and not something that is policed into place.
- hyperbovine 10y agoActually, your priggish comment is way more of a buzz-kill in terms of what I expect / hope to find while browsing HN than the spontaneous demonstration of chain-reaction altruism evinced elsewhere in this thread.