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That would be good. My opinion how digital money should be used for debt-free tax-free money to pay e.g. a UBI: http://lustysociety.org/umi.html http://lustyso

by gepi79 9y ago

That would be good. My opinion how digital money should be used for debt-free tax-free money to pay e.g. a UBI: http://lustysociety.org/umi.html http://lustysociety.org/umi.html

pc86 9y ago
This trend of lazily posting a link to your personal blog instead of discussing something on a discussion forum needs to die a swift death. And I don't want to turn this personal because you're the hundredth person I've seen do this, but why should anyone here care what you in particular have to say about crypto, UBI, or anything else? All we see is a username and that you've been downvoted below 0. Short of remembering your username, there is zero notion of credibility to "here's my thoughts on the subject! [link]"
- gepi79 9y ago
  Why this hostility for a link ? If you had visited the web page you would know that the content was quite long for a comment and the formatting would disappear. If you were an academic or a regular internet user, you would know about the virtue of references. You are free to discuss the topic. At least I know why I was downvoted instead of getting a sensible reply. Thanks for that explanation.
  - pc86 9y ago
    I don't have hostility for links, I've upvoted and enjoyed comments where the poster expands on a subject or provides the basis for their opinion with a link to supporting/additional information. That's a reference. It's the laziness of a comment that is entirely or almost entirely "Here's my thoughts: [link]" that closely approximates some sort of pseudo-blogspam traffic generation technique.
- purple-again 9y ago
  Honestly this argument is no different than the “why is this non tech related article on hacker news when all that should be posted is tech stories” that pops up constantly on Hacker News. It stems from you wanting everyone to use the website the way you want them to instead of the way they want to. In the example instance the powers that Be have explicitly stated it’s okay but as far as i know have not commented on the behavior in question. You can check my comment history to see i never post links but I also have no issue with the behavior. The person has put a lot of effort (compared to a forum post) discussing their take on a topic and decided it’d relevant and of interest to the discussion at hand. If you don’t want to digest information that way it’s easy to ignore it and engage only on site commenters. For those of us who like in depth analysis that can’t be conveyed in a short forum discussion will click through and continue the discussion after.
  - pc86 9y ago
    Where is the discussion on HN if any meaningful percentage of the comments are just folks posting links at each other? I have no question that the linked blog post took effort and contains information difficult or impossible for format for HN. If the powers that be wanted people responding with charts and graphs and well-formatted text, they certainly haven't done a good job at providing those tools. I enjoy reading through linked blog posts (both in the submissions and comments) but as I commented elsewhere in this thread its the laziness of not engaging at all and simply throwing out a link to your personal blog that bothers me. I may very well be in the minority.

by gepi79 9y ago

That would be good. My opinion how digital money should be used for debt-free tax-free money to pay e.g. a UBI: http://lustysociety.org/umi.html http://lustysociety.org/umi.html

pc86 9y ago

This trend of lazily posting a link to your personal blog instead of discussing something on a discussion forum needs to die a swift death. And I don't want to turn this personal because you're the hundredth person I've seen do this, but why should anyone here care what you in particular have to say about crypto, UBI, or anything else? All we see is a username and that you've been downvoted below 0. Short of remembering your username, there is zero notion of credibility to "here's my thoughts on the subject! [link]"

gepi79 9y ago
Why this hostility for a link ? If you had visited the web page you would know that the content was quite long for a comment and the formatting would disappear. If you were an academic or a regular internet user, you would know about the virtue of references. You are free to discuss the topic. At least I know why I was downvoted instead of getting a sensible reply. Thanks for that explanation.
- pc86 9y ago
  I don't have hostility for links, I've upvoted and enjoyed comments where the poster expands on a subject or provides the basis for their opinion with a link to supporting/additional information. That's a reference. It's the laziness of a comment that is entirely or almost entirely "Here's my thoughts: [link]" that closely approximates some sort of pseudo-blogspam traffic generation technique.
purple-again 9y ago
Honestly this argument is no different than the “why is this non tech related article on hacker news when all that should be posted is tech stories” that pops up constantly on Hacker News. It stems from you wanting everyone to use the website the way you want them to instead of the way they want to. In the example instance the powers that Be have explicitly stated it’s okay but as far as i know have not commented on the behavior in question. You can check my comment history to see i never post links but I also have no issue with the behavior. The person has put a lot of effort (compared to a forum post) discussing their take on a topic and decided it’d relevant and of interest to the discussion at hand. If you don’t want to digest information that way it’s easy to ignore it and engage only on site commenters. For those of us who like in depth analysis that can’t be conveyed in a short forum discussion will click through and continue the discussion after.
- pc86 9y ago
  Where is the discussion on HN if any meaningful percentage of the comments are just folks posting links at each other? I have no question that the linked blog post took effort and contains information difficult or impossible for format for HN. If the powers that be wanted people responding with charts and graphs and well-formatted text, they certainly haven't done a good job at providing those tools. I enjoy reading through linked blog posts (both in the submissions and comments) but as I commented elsewhere in this thread its the laziness of not engaging at all and simply throwing out a link to your personal blog that bothers me. I may very well be in the minority.