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If any of what you claim is true, I am an idiot and you are a genius. >when there is no way to become a moderator, people seek status and power elsewhere This
by narrowrail 10y ago
If any of what you claim is true, I am an idiot and you are a genius.
>when there is no way to become a moderator, people seek status and power elsewhere
This is such an odd way to look at the world, I would need quite a bit more explanation. Not everyone is ambitious and competitive.
>HN survives because of similar aspiration to be seen as that smart person in front of a VC audience
Many of us (you included) participate here without any connection to our 'real' identities.
>Facebook and Twitter are waning not because of trolls, but because they have signaled a nannying supervisory role
I haven't seen this study, and my own anecdotal evidence says the novelty is wearing off.
- fatdog 10y agoI regret to say I might have some bad news for you. However, not everyone is ambitious and competitive, but not everyone uses social media. They do seek a sense of approval (or attention), even if it is defracted via a pseudonym. Most social studies are irreproducible bunk anyway. Our 'real' identities are but a hash away, where you give me a place to contact you and tell you the contents of this sha1 sum: b967696ff8376ccd0feb6170b469e23588d702bd . If you wanted to get fancy, we could start by agreeing on a modulus and a base....