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Wow, this comment would've been downvoted to oblivion in the old days. What does this mean?
by jpeterson 16y ago
Wow, this comment would've been downvoted to oblivion in the old days. What does this mean?
- steveklabnik 16y agoI took it as satire on the whole 'Reddit got bought by a giant megaconglomerate yet still had to beg their userbase for money to keep going, and their site is still slow as a dog' fiasco. Then again, about two days ago the Inbox stopped taking 2+ minutes to load, so...
- SkyMarshal 16y agoSame. The subtext says more than the words do.
- jw84 16y agoNo, because people would get it's a South Park reference.
- e1ven 16y agoI'd hate to thinking that our dialog has downgraded to memes and TV show references. Regardless of appropriateness, it doesn't add information or opinion, it's just noise.
- jw84 16y agoHow's being an elitist prick working out for you at parties?
- foljs 16y agoWow, there, Allan Bloom. As if a thread on Hacker News (and, specifically, single comment on that thread) is representative of all dialog. And it might not add "information or opinion", but it's not "just noise", it's what we hip people call A JOKE. And that it's valuable on it's own merits.