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I can understand your frustration but a downvote would have sufficed. If you hadn't seen the HN guidelines, take a gander when you get a spare moment. https://n
by castis 9y ago
I can understand your frustration but a downvote would have sufficed. If you hadn't seen the HN guidelines, take a gander when you get a spare moment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most notably this:
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
- lmm 9y agoMy account is a several years old. HN is turning into Reddit. These one-liners really are a lot more common than they were even 2-3 years ago.
- Flimm 9y agoI agree. If I wanted r/technology, I'd go to r/technology. Please, fellow users of HN, downvote jokes.
- Karunamon 9y agoI never have liked this "HN is serious business" mentality that treats minor humor as a negative to be excised. It makes the community seem very dour.
- lmm 9y agoI like dour. That mentality is one of the things that makes HN different from other communities, and one of the reasons I like HN more than those other communities; I'd rather HN retained this distinctiveness than reverting to the mean.
- maneesh 9y agoYou sound like you wouldn't be much fun to hang out with at parties.
- coldpie 9y agoI'm sorry, you are being downvoted for your reference to "parties". Please refer to the HN Discussion Code of Conduct, section 4 subsection 3(c.R) which states that Real Hackers do not participate in, discuss, or even acknowledge social gatherings known as "parties" except when discussing serious scientific reports centered around research into these social phenomena. This is your only warning.
- dang 9y agoPersonal attacks aren't ok here.
- castis 9y agoAs right as you may perceive yourself to be, complaints are less substantive than the original comment is.
- lmm 9y agoIf you really believe that, then your own comment is even less substantive than mine. The meta-discussion has some substance to it IMO; it conveys at least some information and might suggest some actions to take. The original comment has literally none. (Meta-discussion is marginally poisonous to productive discourse, and on an ideal HN this whole thread would be downvoted, but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat)
- Sohcahtoa82 9y agoI've been on reddit for over 5 years and have only been on HN for about 8 months. HN is definitely completely different from reddit. I like the occasional joke or pun, but reddit takes it too far. The same tired jokes are repeated over and over and yet still get upvoted.