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There was this super weird club in my high school who went out to hospitals and gave long-term patients (mostly vegetables who were on indefinite life support)

There was this super weird club in my high school who went out to hospitals and gave long-term patients (mostly vegetables who were on indefinite life support) ghoulishly gaudy makeovers. They seemed to have no motivation in doing this "community service" beyond their own weird self-satisfaction. Didn't really seem worth challenging them over the utility/sanity of their efforts, but damned if anyone thought it was a good use of their time. Anyhow, what's this thread about?

michaelvoz 10y ago
This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic.
- TheOneTrueKyle 10y ago
  It is weird that people on HN accept certain jokes, but downvote the rest to oblivion. I don't mind honestly so long as it isn't a tangent ala Reddit style
  - yitchelle 10y ago
    I had a similar feeling recently, so I did a "Ask HN" [0] but it seems that this is also uninteresting. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393173
- balls187 10y ago
  > This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic. That doesn't appear to be one of the guidelines when commenting on HN. For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Perhaps ironically, making comments about "likening HN to Reddit" despite having a young account IS explicitly mentioned in the guidelines.
- IntelMiner 10y ago
  Why do you equate people making relevant jokes to "Reddit"? Humor is fairly universal
  - morganvachon 10y ago
    I may be wrong, but I believe in this case it was a weak attempt at trolling in a Reddit-esque style. In other words, it was a recursive jab at both sites. It came off completely flat (at least for me) though.
  - na85 10y ago
    Because the upvote/downvote mechanic coupled with easily visible karma totals results in endlessly-increasing numbers of users who simply want to get more imaginary internet points by means of resorting to low-effort, easily digestible joke posts or one-liners. Reddit comments are invariably a cesspool of shit outside of a handful of decent, smaller subs.
    - dredmorbius 10y ago
      Humour is spice, and often an exceptionally effective mode of criticism. Reddit subs lack a consistent moderation quality, though the ones who moderate well, and I'll give AskScience and AskHistorians as stellar examples, maintain exceptionally high-quality discussions. They are also not entirely humourless (AH's FAQ addresses this and points to some examples), but there's a difference between being overrun by cheap jokes, and using dark humour to point out an obviously unclothed emperor. I've used Google+ since public beta, was tremendously enthusiastic for it, and have been washed through disillusionment after disillusionment in the process. The extent to which it's exposed what I'm finding to be the true Google -- a largely evil advertising empire with a vestigal, and yes, sometimes principled technology arm attached -- has been both profound and ironic (I doubt this was the original intent). It's not that Google are alone in being an evil tech company, the most evil, or even above average. But something huge rotted in that beast and is consuming it from the inside out.
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- RileyKyeden 10y ago
  Your comment is low effort and off topic. I like AStellersSeaCow's comment much better.
  - forgingahead 10y ago
    "Low energy! Sad!"
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andrewfromx 10y ago
i thought this was an excellent comment. on topic and very funny in a ghoulishly way.
srtjstjsj 10y ago
Were the abusive antics of those children and the hospital staff ever reported to authorities?
HelloNurse 10y ago
You are unfair, Google+ is not on indefinite life support, and it has too much Javascript to be a vegetable. Nor is Google+ in hospital; it's one of those patients who leave early because, having a lot to do at home, they convince themselves that they feel well.

michaelvoz 10y ago

This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic.

TheOneTrueKyle 10y ago
It is weird that people on HN accept certain jokes, but downvote the rest to oblivion. I don't mind honestly so long as it isn't a tangent ala Reddit style
- yitchelle 10y ago
  I had a similar feeling recently, so I did a "Ask HN" [0] but it seems that this is also uninteresting. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393173
balls187 10y ago
> This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic. That doesn't appear to be one of the guidelines when commenting on HN. For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Perhaps ironically, making comments about "likening HN to Reddit" despite having a young account IS explicitly mentioned in the guidelines.
IntelMiner 10y ago
Why do you equate people making relevant jokes to "Reddit"? Humor is fairly universal
- morganvachon 10y ago
  I may be wrong, but I believe in this case it was a weak attempt at trolling in a Reddit-esque style. In other words, it was a recursive jab at both sites. It came off completely flat (at least for me) though.
- na85 10y ago
  Because the upvote/downvote mechanic coupled with easily visible karma totals results in endlessly-increasing numbers of users who simply want to get more imaginary internet points by means of resorting to low-effort, easily digestible joke posts or one-liners. Reddit comments are invariably a cesspool of shit outside of a handful of decent, smaller subs.
  - dredmorbius 10y ago
    Humour is spice, and often an exceptionally effective mode of criticism. Reddit subs lack a consistent moderation quality, though the ones who moderate well, and I'll give AskScience and AskHistorians as stellar examples, maintain exceptionally high-quality discussions. They are also not entirely humourless (AH's FAQ addresses this and points to some examples), but there's a difference between being overrun by cheap jokes, and using dark humour to point out an obviously unclothed emperor. I've used Google+ since public beta, was tremendously enthusiastic for it, and have been washed through disillusionment after disillusionment in the process. The extent to which it's exposed what I'm finding to be the true Google -- a largely evil advertising empire with a vestigal, and yes, sometimes principled technology arm attached -- has been both profound and ironic (I doubt this was the original intent). It's not that Google are alone in being an evil tech company, the most evil, or even above average. But something huge rotted in that beast and is consuming it from the inside out.
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    [deleted]
RileyKyeden 10y ago
Your comment is low effort and off topic. I like AStellersSeaCow's comment much better.
- forgingahead 10y ago
  "Low energy! Sad!"
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andrewfromx 10y ago

i thought this was an excellent comment. on topic and very funny in a ghoulishly way.

srtjstjsj 10y ago

Were the abusive antics of those children and the hospital staff ever reported to authorities?

HelloNurse 10y ago

You are unfair, Google+ is not on indefinite life support, and it has too much Javascript to be a vegetable. Nor is Google+ in hospital; it's one of those patients who leave early because, having a lot to do at home, they convince themselves that they feel well.