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> imagine if all the top links on hacker news were just corporate advertisements disguised as stories. Would it be a worse place or cause any of us harm? Of cou
by scribu 9y ago
> imagine if all the top links on hacker news were just corporate advertisements disguised as stories. Would it be a worse place or cause any of us harm? Of course not.
Did you leave out the </sarcasm> tag by accident?
How can the front page being topped with "publicity stunts nobody cares about" not make it a worse place?
- logicallee 9y agoof course, here: /s. Yes it was sarcastic. (I must say I'm a bit blown away that you think I require a sarcasm tag, though - I wrote that "everyone can be the top link", an obvious absurdity since how can everyone be the top link, and that hacker news wouldn't be any worse if every single link were a paid story. I didn't think I came even close to having to mark my comment as sarcastic, which I sometimes do.)
- croon 9y agoYou underestimate the levels of straight-faced absurdity of the last 6 months.