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Interesting how when it was top-voted comment it read more as the light-hearted poking of fun which I intended (I really have no problem with Wolfram, I think h
by adwhit 8y ago
Interesting how when it was top-voted comment it read more as the light-hearted poking of fun which I intended (I really have no problem with Wolfram, I think he's funny). But now it has been demoted to the bottom of the thread it has started getting lots of downvotes and somehow reads (even to me) as being mean and bitter.
Curious example of how the thread position/reaction of others really primes how we receive a comment.
- ballooney 8y agoun-self-aware self belief is a commodity to exploit for the people who pay dang, just like our continued engagement with this forum. There is commercial value in engineering the tone of the discussion, artificially or otherwise. Your perception is the desired outcome.
- dang 8y agoI thought your comment was funny too. But alas we have tons of experience with Wolfram threads collapsing into nothing more than "wolfram wolfram wolfram" in an outraged mirroring of the very thing they're criticizing. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20wolfram https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... It's just another black hole, and one of the most trivial. And since (Wolfram being Wolfram) there are also interesting things in the submission to discuss, that's what we should focus on.