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I'm complaining because in my experience, it has destroyed a lot of interesting discussions for me. It's less about my experience making comments but more about
by jryan49 8y ago
I'm complaining because in my experience, it has destroyed a lot of interesting discussions for me. It's less about my experience making comments but more about reading other comment threads that get killed or discussions becoming intense circlejerks.
- krapp 8y agoHacker News has never been about free and open discussion, unfortunately. I use the userscript I have linked in my profile to disable the fade for downvoted comments but there's only so much you can do. And to be fair... there are some subjects for which Hacker News has proven less than capable of maintaining civil discourse, and some subjects like mainstream news and politics which are legitimately off topic. But it would be nice if people learned to just ignore sentiments they both disagreed with and were neither willing or capable of a reply to, and just hid threads they didn't want to participate in.
- jryan49 8y agoThanks for the userscript! I'm going to try it out. edit: fun note, we joined HN basically at the same time