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HN is not Reddit.
by i386 8y ago
HN is not Reddit.
- KirinDave 8y agoIndeed, Reddits communication culture is way more advanced.
- LAMY2000_EF 8y agoI mean this meme is actually a kinda useful comment poking fun at excessively short-term thinking among investors.
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- seattle_spring 8y agoYes, we are reminded of that everytime someone with a slight sense of humor is squashed by a comment like yours.
- i386 8y agoYou are free to choose the many other communities on the internet if you don't like this one.
- seattle_spring 8y agoI'm quite fine here, thanks! And you are free to scroll on to other comments if you don't like the ones you are reading.
- sethrin 8y agoI have lots of political opinions, which I enjoy expressing, and even the lame in-jokes on Slashdot were special in a sense. A lot of techies are quite witty, and humor is an essential part of human expression. I think that both of these things absolutely destroyed that forum, and that the rules are vital to the utility of Hacker News. As you say, there are other forums which have fewer rules about self-expression -- and those forums provide a continually renewed justification for HN's content guidelines.
- L0stLink 8y agoI agree, memes often don't contribute towards the discussion and add unnecessary noise: they just regurgitate what has already been said (the above meme is an example). I like the culture of Hacker News and its higher quality discussions and I don't want it to turn into Reddit. When I want to look at memes, I go to Reddit and I suggest the same to others.
- JohnJamesRambo 8y agoAre you familiar with the phrase gatekeeping?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoAre you? Suggesting that people stick to the rules is not "gatekeeping".
- jalfresi 8y agoYes, and we should all do our part to hold each other up to the standards we expect from this community
- tuesdayrain 8y agoI know that's not what the phrase is referring to, but people have gates for a reason. To keep unwanted things out.