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Just last week Terry Jones' obituary received hundreds of upvotes here and in many other places. I guess users are flagging Kobe but not Terry Jones because th
by papeda 7y ago
Just last week Terry Jones' obituary received hundreds of upvotes here and in many other places.
I guess users are flagging Kobe but not Terry Jones because they like Jones more. But this is explicitly what flagging is not supposed to be about.
- samatman 7y agoTerry Jones was a member of Monty Python, which gave us the word "spam" for unwanted email, and the Python programming language. I would call that sufficiently on-topic, personally.
- pushpop 7y agoAs I said elsewhere when that argument was made; it’s a very tenuous connection. Things named after him isn’t the same as things he was directly involved in. I love Monty Python but it’s disingenuous to claim they they’re any more “on topic” than a basketball player (and I say this as someone who’s not generally a sports fan). The only real difference between the two is one is more popular on HN than the other. Which is a real shitty reason to flag an obituary in my opinion.
- samatman 7y agoMonty Python is specifically mentioned in the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-humor.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-humor.html And I'm fairly certain this predates esr's tenure (I used to own a copy of The Great Quux's hardcover). We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.
- pushpop 7y ago> Monty Python is specifically mentioned in the Jargon File: That just reinforces that things were named after Monty Python rather than Monty Python creating the tech! > We're just going to have to agree to disagree here. You haven’t actually disagreed with my point though.
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