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Day by day, HN is becoming reddit. Jokes, shenanigans and these types of comments are plentiful on the internet. Please leave HN for serious discussions.

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mjones72 8y ago
This could be said of many comments in many threads, but by posting a comment you're polluting the site as much as he is. Downvote and move on.
brian-armstrong 8y ago
For the record, HN's emotional callousness and inability to deal with soft/delicate subjects are for more destructive than shenanigans are
- fermienrico 8y ago
  Probably, but pointing fingers at a different issue doesn’t help the case for the topic at hand. Whataboutism isn’t acceptable here.
- dang 8y ago
  I wish I had seen this to respond to sooner. I understand how such impressions develop—one sees something callous and recoils from it, and after a few such unpleasant encounters the impression gets transferred to the community as a whole. But that generalization is not valid at all, and actually the mechanism that produces it is a bit callous in its own right. HN members are full of heart and have shown it on countless occasions, as you can see from histories like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thank%20you%20hn&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thank%20you%20hn&sort=byPo... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thanks%20hn&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thanks%20hn&sort=byPopular... It's true that there's too much callousness on this site. But humans are like that on the internet everywhere. There's also a lot of mutual support and humane feeling here, to a rare degree in so large a community. This matters to me personally because we pour our own hearts into trying to get HN to be that way and to stay that way.
  - shawn 8y ago
    It's remarkable that you can post a comment like this one right after your actions in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054502 Viewers note his "mutual support" and "humane feeling," and how much he pours his heart into his work.
Sholmesy 8y ago
Honestly; the HN community does a good job of self-regulating this behaviour. The consensus seems to be against these types of comments, as they are more often than not at the bottom of the post.
mkio 8y ago
This development has been bugging me as well. And while joke comments used to be ignored, now they trigger a chain reaction of joke answers.
alexeiz 8y ago
> HN is becoming reddit Not without memes it's not. It's time to add memes to HN.

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mjones72 8y ago

This could be said of many comments in many threads, but by posting a comment you're polluting the site as much as he is. Downvote and move on.

brian-armstrong 8y ago

For the record, HN's emotional callousness and inability to deal with soft/delicate subjects are for more destructive than shenanigans are

fermienrico 8y ago
Probably, but pointing fingers at a different issue doesn’t help the case for the topic at hand. Whataboutism isn’t acceptable here.
dang 8y ago
I wish I had seen this to respond to sooner. I understand how such impressions develop—one sees something callous and recoils from it, and after a few such unpleasant encounters the impression gets transferred to the community as a whole. But that generalization is not valid at all, and actually the mechanism that produces it is a bit callous in its own right. HN members are full of heart and have shown it on countless occasions, as you can see from histories like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thank%20you%20hn&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thank%20you%20hn&sort=byPo... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thanks%20hn&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thanks%20hn&sort=byPopular... It's true that there's too much callousness on this site. But humans are like that on the internet everywhere. There's also a lot of mutual support and humane feeling here, to a rare degree in so large a community. This matters to me personally because we pour our own hearts into trying to get HN to be that way and to stay that way.
- shawn 8y ago
  It's remarkable that you can post a comment like this one right after your actions in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054502 Viewers note his "mutual support" and "humane feeling," and how much he pours his heart into his work.

Sholmesy 8y ago

Honestly; the HN community does a good job of self-regulating this behaviour. The consensus seems to be against these types of comments, as they are more often than not at the bottom of the post.

mkio 8y ago

This development has been bugging me as well. And while joke comments used to be ignored, now they trigger a chain reaction of joke answers.

alexeiz 8y ago

> HN is becoming reddit Not without memes it's not. It's time to add memes to HN.