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This comment is a good way to see all the HN users who go off of a comment without reading it fully.
by tpush 7y ago
This comment is a good way to see all the HN users who go off of a comment without reading it fully.
- collyw 7y agoDoesn't everyone do that?
- hu3 7y agoTime is limited. I'd be lying if I said that I read all comments in full when their first paragraph appear to be nonsense. I'd rather move on to the next comment.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoIs this what it means for communities to be too large? Like, you'd never do this to a coworker or a friend, but here there's enough content and users that you can say "fuck it" and assume you know better than what you didn't actually read.
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- hnal943 7y agoIn fairness, lots of people talk over their friends.
- adamlett 7y agoI fail to see how this is good way to see all the HN users. Why would I even want that? There must be thousands of HN users.
- tasuki 7y agoI honestly don't understand how people can reply without even reading what they're replying to. And when they do, why aren't they downvoted to oblivion?
- yiyus 7y agoIt's not always easy to get these jokes in the internet, even more so for non-English speakers which are, precisely, the ones who may be more harmed for not getting this particular joke. I only downvote when I see some comment that goes against the rules, I do not think that it is my task to punish those who do not read a comment or do not get a joke. Our comments, however, clearly go against the guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
- mar77i 7y agoI'd prefer to not have to discuss problems in Ali's code I can't read, yet his algorithm doesn't work, but I can fix typos in our resident elderly COBOL programmer's output, even though he's from SE Asia and his English is rather basic. It seems like a personal preference, yet I think it's more complicated than that.