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This topic is hilarious for demonstrating the "we don't want to be reddit" background angst that permeates Hacker News. Allow me to make the following vaguely
by Helianthus16 16y ago
This topic is hilarious for demonstrating the "we don't want to be reddit" background angst that permeates Hacker News. Allow me to make the following vaguely contradictory points in quick succession:
1) The sort of commentary that assumes other people have read the frontpage and felt similar things is actually the sign of a strong community. chirsaycock's post agreeing with OP is highly voted because a lot of people _did_ see today's posts and sigh a little on the inside.
2) This level of meta leads to people making stupid meta points. Someone actually said "This." on this site? bah!
3) "witty remarks considered harmful," a post that I personally find amusing, is in a state of "very downvoted." what absolutely delicious irony.
4) A significant presentation of negativity considering how many people apparently agree with the general point about the snowclone. We agree with you, lenary, we just don't agree about how we agree with you. "How dare you be right about us?"
5) Some actually funny meta-humor, but then you realize you've seen it before on reddit. I'm referring of course to the thread beginning "I have an opinion."
6) Will you upvote me or downvote me? Discuss.
- lenary 16y agoI will upvote you, because I'm the OP and you are making comments useful to the discussion I hoped to provoke. Too bad about the downvotes for my comment "laughing is evil" (which was said sarcastically, ftr)
- Helianthus16 16y agoI think that I ended on that point because it's rather telling how we still manage to take upvotes and downvotes seriously, making us much more similar to reddit than we could ever be different.