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Why are people so angry on the internet?
by john_onion 17y ago
Why are people so angry on the internet?
- pg 17y agoI'm sorry. Comments here used to be a lot more thoughtful (in both senses). I'm planning on working on this problem soon.
- blasdel 17y agoThis particular link is a perfect troll — the headline stabs at your WTF button, then the comment linked to has zero context clarifying the reasoning but tons of technical details that fuel the nerd rage — people were so trolled by the perceived linkrot and cache problems that they didn't even bite at the obvious SQL & ORM bait! I don't think you can fix this with code, much less your usual tactic of adding heuristics to moderate/voteweight/ban.
- caffeine 17y agoNot to be HN-litist, but I think this post is drawing questionable comments in particular because it's linked in several places from Reddit, from which we are likely receiving a flood of users uninclined to self-moderate.
- riffer 17y agoI hope that one of the approaches you try is recursive on who tends to vote for whom.
- itgoon 17y agoI feel your pain, in more ways than one. Any site that keep running for a decade is impressive in and of itself. I, for one, won't try to second-guess your decisions. The Onion has been around for a long (internet) time, and I suspect most of the Web101 suggestions have been considered. Besides, you guys have left me in stitches too many times for me to be particularly critical. Thanks for existing!