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What exactly is the confusion here? That people share things on their own blog? Or that people vote it up on HN? If the former, people share all sorts of oddit
by libria 8y ago
What exactly is the confusion here? That people share things on their own blog? Or that people vote it up on HN?
If the former, people share all sorts of oddities in their own personal space especially life-changing events of which career moves is one.
If the latter, a lot of people follow "developer influencers" to keep up on the cutting edge trends. I'm personally keeping an eye on the Rust Book and hoping it maintains its high quality so that's my investment in this. I'd go the other way and say it would be borderline irresponsible of him not to publicly state he's moving off Mozilla's payroll b/c of so many of us depending on his super-active involvement in and documentation of Rust.
> why am I reading this?
Yeah, why? A better question is, why are you commenting on not wanting to read it instead of just skipping and moving on?
- tptacek 8y agoIt is probably way more the latter concern (the voting) than the former (the writing), but note upthread that Klabnik was aware this was going to happen when he wrote it, which is why he asked Cloud Flare marketing about it first. As to why I'm commenting on it: because it was submitted for our comment, and this is my comment.
- mindcrime 8y agoAs to why I'm commenting on it: because it was submitted for our comment, and this is my comment. Was it? Is there any particular expectation that HN users must comment on stories, as opposed to simply reading them and gaining whatever value they gain from that exercise? I don't know about you, but I certainly don't feel compelled to comment on every HN post. And judging by how many posts hit the /newest page and disappear with 0 comments, I don't think I'm alone in that...
- drwl 8y agoThis is on the top/front page though
- mindcrime 8y agoDo you posit that the presence of a story on the front-page implies that every single HN user is expected to comment? Personally I don't buy that. Hell, I don't even think "presence on the front page" implies that all, or even most, HN users will even read the link. But, who knows... maybe I'm wrong.
- pvg 8y agoYou are, there is no maybe about it. The plain English meaning of 'it was submitted for our comment' is not 'everyone is required to comment on every story'. That's just a misinterpretation of your own.
- johnwyles 8y agoAND.... THREAD DEATH.
- mindcrime 8y agoThe plain English meaning of 'it was submitted for our comment' is not 'everyone is required to comment on every story'. In the context of how it was used, that was absolutely the implication. Tptacek submitted that as the rationale to explain his commenting, when he (obviously) could have easily skipped the whole thread. Ultimately there was no real reason for him to bother commenting in the first place...
- pvg 8y agoThe context is, one person asks another why they are commenting which is one of the oldest, malignantly dimwitted things to say in an online forum. The other person, mindful of the site guidelines and out of a robust and abiding sense of decorum replies that, this being a commenting place, they comment. Then you come along and want to interpret that reply to actually mean 'Everything permitted on HN is compulsory'. That is, at a polite minimum, pointedly silly.
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