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When browsing through http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg I notice that his comments won't make sense without kn
by kirubakaran 19y ago
When browsing through http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg I notice that his comments won't make sense without knowing that it is pg who is making them.
Most are clarifications as Hacker News Maintainer and Furry Investor. (or Furry Capitalist?)
Knee jerk vote-ups I am guilty of are for: edw519, mixmax, rms, pg and nostrademons. But I'm very sure I'd have voted those comments up even if I didn't know the commenter's id. ID gives more context... it is like I hear it in a particular voice.
- mechanical_fish 19y ago+1, knee-jerk vote-up. :) No, actually it's the phrase "it's like I hear it in a particular voice". Precisely correct. Sites like this one aren't collections of anonymous robots talking to other anonymous robots.
- attack 19y agoYeah, lets forget careful thinking and just support whoever had a good record previously regardless of what they say today.
- kirubakaran 19y agoThe experience of reading a comment knowing the commenter's id makes up (a little bit at least) for the lack of face2face. For example, based on a previous discussion, I know that mixmax had sex with a porn star :) When I read his comments now, my brain does some signal processing magic using this. Please note that I don't give him a +1 coz of this history. But this knowledge puts warmth in an otherwise cold place (cold = place filled with strangers).
- attack 19y agoYes, necessarily biased. Severely in some cases, but there's only one way to prove that...
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- mixmax 19y agoI should never have written that - how can anyone here take me seriously now? :-)
- mrtron 19y agoVoted up, I agree. Sorry...what were you saying? Why can't people take you serious? That's ridiculous.
- kirubakaran 19y ago:-) IMO your words carry more weight because of it... (more knowledge, experience etc)