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I would have shut down my Netflix subscription two months ago, but since I'm sharing it with my 70+ mom who's still enjoying it for some reason, I'm keeping it
by tpmx 7y ago
I would have shut down my Netflix subscription two months ago, but since I'm sharing it with my 70+ mom who's still enjoying it for some reason, I'm keeping it going for now.
Otherwise, for me (~40 yo male in Sweden), Netflix isn't very interesting at all. I think its data-driven culture is awesome at creating shows that are fascinating to its California-based execs.
Also: I wish they'd tone down the politics. I'm with Bill Burr on this: Not every single fxxing thing has to be about politics. We get it. We're onboard. We don't need to be preached at in every singly fxxking show though. Remember, we're paying for a service here. We expect being entertained. Not getting preached at.
- eganist 7y agoYou have the power.
- tpmx 7y agoThis isn't a complaint.
- cambalache 7y agoThis happens all the time here and to be honest, HN is one of the best sites regarding censorship. It is pretty scary how in the last 5 or so years the policing of online discourse has ramped up and it is accelerating. I know, I know if you don't like it, spin up your own mastodon instance. If you don't want to seat back on the bus, create your own bus service and so on.
- ravenstine 7y agoThe voting system on HN is a joke. To some degree it does work for an audience of intellectuals, but it wouldn't work at all with a general audience. Everyone just downvotes what offends their sensibilities, but because messages get greyed out, moved down the page, and eventually hidden with relatively few downvotes, they're effectively saying "nobody should hear your opinion", no matter how civil your language. Just take the downvotes as a badge of pride. I expect this very comment to get downvoted and those same voters won't even bother to tell me why I'm wrong.
- jimktrains2 7y agoI've always felt that as a general rule across all platforms, downvotes should be required to come with a hand typed, not selected from a drop-down, comment of at least 50 characters. Sure, I could just hold down 'r' and be done with it, but I feel like the mods could easily clean that up.
- dang 7y agoComments about downvotes are among the lowest-quality comments that get posted here. Requiring more of them would be a big mistake. If a user has something meaningful to say about how they disagree with another comment, they already can—and do—reply. If they don't have anything substantial to say, and downvoting prevents them from saying it, that's a feature not a bug. It's tempting to imagine that placing hurdles in front of users could solve the quality problem, but IMO that's a fantasy. There are no easy ways to do that and no technical fixes for it.
- at_a_remove 7y agoI am reading the comment as more of a "reasons must be explained to the moderators for a downvote," without those reasons being posted to the thread proper.
- dang 7y agoHN users would not welcome having to explain themselves to moderators in that way, and we have no spare capacity to read them anyhow.
- jimktrains2 7y agoI meant for the comments to be public. If someone is wrong, misguided, or simply thinks differently than you do, it's better for the group as a whole to have a discussion about that than it is to censor someone.
- jimktrains2 7y ago> If they don't have anything substantial to say, and downvoting prevents them from saying it, that's a feature not a bug. See, this is the problem. I'd many of the downvoted posts I see are simply contrarian, not something insubstantial.