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Digg comments about how to disagree, slightly different from News.YC

8 points by mrtron 19y ago

mrtron 19y ago
Let's be thankful we have a venue for intelligent discourse.
pg 19y ago
It's surprisingly restrained, though. I noticed the same thing on reddit. This particular essay seems to wedge trolls.
- ashu 19y ago
  Probably because nobody feels implicitly attacked in a specific way and doesn't feel the urge to be impulsively vindictive.
- gaika 19y ago
  I wonder if it can be used as an anti-troll weapon in other discussion forums... Should it be added to the news.YC guidelines too?
- pg 19y ago
  Correction: not on MetaFilter. http://www.metafilter.com/70350/Turning-writing-into-a-conversation http://www.metafilter.com/70350/Turning-writing-into-a-conve... On the other hand, it's not entirely surprising MetaFilter users would dislike this one. The point about the pretentious subtype of DH0 was inspired by MetaFilter comment threads.
  - Zak 19y ago
    Of course they would say that. They're MetaFilter users. Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between a relatively useless ad hominem attack and a meaningful critique of a group. How do you distinguish between what you just said here and DH1?
    - pg 19y ago
      I'm not doing it as a form of disagreement. (I don't expect MetaFilter readers to see this thread.) I'm just explaining where that part of the essay came from.
- ardit33 19y ago
  "It's surprisingly restrained" -- It is a long essay, so most people that would write childish comments might not bother to read it at all, still there a are few burried comments that are pretty inane.
acgourley 19y ago
mmm metacomments..
mynameishere 19y ago
Digg is bad. Don't go there. Funny how much ad hominem thinking regulates our behavior, and benefits us, no matter how much of a fallacy it is supposed to be.
PieSquared 19y ago
Whoa. Striking difference. It's almost like YouTube... I don't think comments can get worse than YouTubian ones.
edw519 19y ago
Looks like posting on digg is like spitting into the ocean. What's the point?

8 points by mrtron 19y ago

mrtron 19y ago

Let's be thankful we have a venue for intelligent discourse.

pg 19y ago

It's surprisingly restrained, though. I noticed the same thing on reddit. This particular essay seems to wedge trolls.

ashu 19y ago
Probably because nobody feels implicitly attacked in a specific way and doesn't feel the urge to be impulsively vindictive.
gaika 19y ago
I wonder if it can be used as an anti-troll weapon in other discussion forums... Should it be added to the news.YC guidelines too?
pg 19y ago
Correction: not on MetaFilter. http://www.metafilter.com/70350/Turning-writing-into-a-conversation http://www.metafilter.com/70350/Turning-writing-into-a-conve... On the other hand, it's not entirely surprising MetaFilter users would dislike this one. The point about the pretentious subtype of DH0 was inspired by MetaFilter comment threads.
- Zak 19y ago
  Of course they would say that. They're MetaFilter users. Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between a relatively useless ad hominem attack and a meaningful critique of a group. How do you distinguish between what you just said here and DH1?
  - pg 19y ago
    I'm not doing it as a form of disagreement. (I don't expect MetaFilter readers to see this thread.) I'm just explaining where that part of the essay came from.
ardit33 19y ago
"It's surprisingly restrained" -- It is a long essay, so most people that would write childish comments might not bother to read it at all, still there a are few burried comments that are pretty inane.

acgourley 19y ago

mmm metacomments..

mynameishere 19y ago

Digg is bad. Don't go there. Funny how much ad hominem thinking regulates our behavior, and benefits us, no matter how much of a fallacy it is supposed to be.

PieSquared 19y ago

Whoa. Striking difference. It's almost like YouTube... I don't think comments can get worse than YouTubian ones.

edw519 19y ago

Looks like posting on digg is like spitting into the ocean. What's the point?