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Yeah the HN userbase can be extremely frustrating to deal with. Your comments will be flagged and you'll likely get some admin telling you to read the HN guidel

Yeah the HN userbase can be extremely frustrating to deal with. Your comments will be flagged and you'll likely get some admin telling you to read the HN guidelines as though it means anything or matters. But I want you to know that someone else on this site sees the bullshit within the community that exasperated you so much. The HN crowd will upvoted BS posts and downvote substantial discussion on basically a random whim. The admins are known to very insulting label good posts as things such as "tedious ideological boilerplate" or "political flame bait" when they personally don't like what was posted. The userbase treats upvotes and downvotes exactly the way they're used on Reddit. This place is basically just nerd Reddit. Unfortunately your claim about the virginity of the userbase is both unnecessary (and guaranteed to find the wrath of the powers here) and most likely wrong because the folks here really do make money. You gotta play the game by their rules or they grey you out. Use those coding skills we all supposedly have to make a new platform and make it better so you can steal away the part of HNs userbase whose worth a damn. That's likely the only way to "fight da powah" since you're obviously very unhappy about this whole ordeal...

andrewtbham 7y ago
I have always bit my tongue on here.. I went to Startup School 2012. So I have tried to keep my cool because I thought it might lead to some opportunity. But this site is so bad at this point. I really don't care anymore. I might lose my karma or get kicked off but I frankly do not care... I have read the guidelines. and I defy someone on here to give me a good reason to downvote the original comment.
- dcow 7y ago
  My guess, though I have not downvoted, is because it’s off topic. This isn’t a general coronavirus thread. The discussion is about the article posted. Why not submit that link independently?
  - andrewtbham 7y ago
    @dcow I agree off topic is a possible explanation... however... The link is to one of the sources for the video and the article. I did submit it as a separate link and it's got no traction. My concern is this... there is a lot of fake news... like the 5G tower theory which is absurd. But there are also legit people out there trying to figure out this problem. They are being dumped into the same bucket... by well meaning social media moderators. I suspected it was downvoted because people think they're doing the right thing... stopping the spread of wild theories or disinformation.
    - dcow 7y ago
      Respectfully, I think you’ve described your exact problem. I watched 30 seconds of the video. I wouldn’t call it a wild theory or disinformation. But I also don't find it particularly relevant or insightful. So I don’t think your assumption that this site is full of idiots who are downvoting you to try and stop the spread of _fake_ fake news (god I hate that term) is accurate. You’re simply using a popular thread to try and get visibility which, I’m sure, you believe is warranted because you find the video compelling. However this is not a strategy that’s generally acceptable on HN. You posted the link. People haven't found it interesting enough to upvote on its own merit. HN is not a virus fighting machine. Don’t pretend that posing some under-informed (based on the discussion here) doctor on vimeo talking about his hypothesis would have had any impact on anything had it _just_ been more favorably received... In other words, don't fret it. HN comment threads (social media as you put it) are not going to cure a pandemic.
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andrewtbham 7y ago
I have thought quite a bit about how to make a better more credible site.... It would be quite a challenge. One feature that would be useful on hacker news, would be to indicate which guideline you're violating when you downvote.

andrewtbham 7y ago

I have always bit my tongue on here.. I went to Startup School 2012. So I have tried to keep my cool because I thought it might lead to some opportunity. But this site is so bad at this point. I really don't care anymore. I might lose my karma or get kicked off but I frankly do not care... I have read the guidelines. and I defy someone on here to give me a good reason to downvote the original comment.

dcow 7y ago
My guess, though I have not downvoted, is because it’s off topic. This isn’t a general coronavirus thread. The discussion is about the article posted. Why not submit that link independently?
- andrewtbham 7y ago
  @dcow I agree off topic is a possible explanation... however... The link is to one of the sources for the video and the article. I did submit it as a separate link and it's got no traction. My concern is this... there is a lot of fake news... like the 5G tower theory which is absurd. But there are also legit people out there trying to figure out this problem. They are being dumped into the same bucket... by well meaning social media moderators. I suspected it was downvoted because people think they're doing the right thing... stopping the spread of wild theories or disinformation.
  - dcow 7y ago
    Respectfully, I think you’ve described your exact problem. I watched 30 seconds of the video. I wouldn’t call it a wild theory or disinformation. But I also don't find it particularly relevant or insightful. So I don’t think your assumption that this site is full of idiots who are downvoting you to try and stop the spread of _fake_ fake news (god I hate that term) is accurate. You’re simply using a popular thread to try and get visibility which, I’m sure, you believe is warranted because you find the video compelling. However this is not a strategy that’s generally acceptable on HN. You posted the link. People haven't found it interesting enough to upvote on its own merit. HN is not a virus fighting machine. Don’t pretend that posing some under-informed (based on the discussion here) doctor on vimeo talking about his hypothesis would have had any impact on anything had it _just_ been more favorably received... In other words, don't fret it. HN comment threads (social media as you put it) are not going to cure a pandemic.
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andrewtbham 7y ago

I have thought quite a bit about how to make a better more credible site.... It would be quite a challenge. One feature that would be useful on hacker news, would be to indicate which guideline you're violating when you downvote.