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Look, even if you're joking, is that the sort of attitude you want represented here? Knee-jerk hate might be a beneficial strategy if you're trying to survive
by awakeasleep 16y ago
Look, even if you're joking, is that the sort of attitude you want represented here?
Knee-jerk hate might be a beneficial strategy if you're trying to survive in Darfur, but we safe people should try to minimize it for the benefit of our own minds. We learn and grow by studying things, especially the things that rub us the wrong way. The other benefits of arbitrary hate like feeling you belong to an in-group seem out of place on HN, a site mostly devoted to curiosity (from what I've seen).
I'm not saying you should or shouldn't feel or act a certain way, but for all of our sakes lets keep it mental and not bring that sort of thing into the public light here where it might be perceived as community endorsement of that point of view.
- SwellJoe 16y ago"I'm not saying you should or shouldn't feel or act a certain way" But, that I shouldn't say it at Hacker News? I'm disappointed. First, I'm disappointed that you've suggested that my comment, whether a joke or sincere (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader as to whether I intended the former or the latter), is unacceptable speech. Second, I'm disappointed that 12 other HN readers agree with you. I now have to conclude that, as others are talking about, HN is losing the culture it once had, and that saddens me.
- invisible 16y agoI agree with you that it should be fine except that you are joking about it while we're talking about critiques of HN itself. He was talking about how posts get voted into oblivion for saying good things about Apple (which could be a serious problem with regard to addressing intellectual conversation) and you downplay the importance of that by making a joke.
- v21 16y agoA joke which has as part of it's humour a reflection on how there is a tendency to glamorize the past. A joke designed to purposefully downplay that critique.
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- cletus 16y agoI don't view your statement as unacceptable speech (whether it be a joke or not). Instead I view it as noise and a pointless distraction. HN discourages "+1" type comments, anything that doesn't add to the conversation. I suspect your quote was trying to be funny. If so, it really falls into that same category of adding nothing at which point you have to ask: who exactly is losing the spirit of HN was/is all about?
- jbooth 16y ago>Look, even if you're joking, is that the sort of attitude you want represented here? Yes. He was obviously joking, and I smiled. It was funny.