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This reads like a mediocre college admissions essay full of breathless, overdramatic characterizations of minor, anodyne exchanges. I had to stop reading when a
by thwythwy 7y ago
This reads like a mediocre college admissions essay full of breathless, overdramatic characterizations of minor, anodyne exchanges. I had to stop reading when a two word response from a user gave the author "a small rush of triumph." The tone and word choice is just nauseating. Examples abound:
> "Commenters . . . . bickered about the word 'soul.'"
> "Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates."
The interesting aspects of this article could fill a tweet. "1/3 of HN users come from europe. It has mods. They have tatts. Check out @shit_hn_says"
- dang 7y agoOne has tatts.
- tptacek 7y agoYou know you want "Please don't do this here" on your arm. Maybe in, like, kanji characters or something.
- amyjess 7y agoProbably not the best phrase to get done in Japanese. There's no kanji; you'd write all of it in hiragana. ここでしないでください。 [koko de shinaide kudasai] Or maybe if you wanted to emphasize the "this": ここでこれをしないでください。 [koko de kore o shinaide kudasai]
- tptacek 7y agoSeriously, what's the number we'd have to hit in a charity Kickstarter to make Dan do this?
- intentionalmeta 7y agoPlease don't do this here. > Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pvg 7y agoIt's been a while since someone's made good use of the HN poll feature.
- scott_s 7y ago"Please stop." (Or maybe that was more pg's style.)
- scott_s 7y agoI'm at a loss at what word choices you object to; people bickered over the world "soul" in that thread, and talked about Cartesian metaphysics and quoted Socrates. Perhaps your real objection is someone else taking their work seriously.