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> Downvotes away ignoranti! Not a mod, but that’s against the HN guidelines and is likely to keep your comment grayed out. I thought the rest of your comment

> Downvotes away ignoranti! Not a mod, but that’s against the HN guidelines and is likely to keep your comment grayed out. I thought the rest of your comment was interesting, FWIW.

axguscbklp 7y ago
Personally, I gravitate towards grayed-out comments. I think that they tend to be likely to be on one or another extreme side of the intellectual bell curve. Basically, they end up grayed out because either they are too dumb or too smart for the average Hacker News user. So if I manage to run an effective mental filter to discard grayed-out comments that are on the low side of the intellectual gray curve, then gravitating towards grayed-out comments makes it more likely that I am exposed to content that is in the highest intellectual range of Hacker News comments as a whole.
- dang 7y ago
  Or the ones you most agree with, which for most people are approximately the same as the 'highest intellectual range' ones. But since this is how like to you read HN, you really should know about the 'showdead' option in your profile. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
  - axguscbklp 7y ago
    Thanks for the tip about "showdead". I totally agree that there's a big danger, if one follows the strategy I described, of personal bias making one confuse "intelligent" with "what I want to be true" or with "what I enjoy because it is contrarian". However, I am aware of this danger and work to mitigate it in various ways. Also, I should mention that I don't think that grayed-out comments are 0.5 likely to be highly intelligent - I'd say it's more like about 0.1 or 0.2. Overall, I think that the benefit of prioritizing grayed-out comments, to me, has been worth it so far.
droithomme 7y ago
> that’s against the HN guidelines It's also against Nazi guidelines to have open and honest free speech as opposed to speech that simply supports the agenda of those in power. Good for you for supporting the elite power! I hope they reward you for licking their anus vigorously, Mr. Chamberlain.
- dang 7y ago
  Ok, that's enough now. Since you clearly don't want to use HN as intended, I've banned this account.
  - greglindahl 7y ago
    Finally!
  - strategarius 7y ago
    It's naive to think that Russian, Chinese and just fat trolls do not use HN as a resource for work and entertainment. Some entrance filter is required.
  - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
    My compliments on your patience in the face of some really vile personal attacks. So far as I could tell, you never lost your temper, and you gave far more grace than seemed deserved.

> Downvotes away ignoranti! Not a mod, but that’s against the HN guidelines and is likely to keep your comment grayed out. I thought the rest of your comment was interesting, FWIW.

axguscbklp 7y ago

Personally, I gravitate towards grayed-out comments. I think that they tend to be likely to be on one or another extreme side of the intellectual bell curve. Basically, they end up grayed out because either they are too dumb or too smart for the average Hacker News user. So if I manage to run an effective mental filter to discard grayed-out comments that are on the low side of the intellectual gray curve, then gravitating towards grayed-out comments makes it more likely that I am exposed to content that is in the highest intellectual range of Hacker News comments as a whole.

dang 7y ago
Or the ones you most agree with, which for most people are approximately the same as the 'highest intellectual range' ones. But since this is how like to you read HN, you really should know about the 'showdead' option in your profile. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
- axguscbklp 7y ago
  Thanks for the tip about "showdead". I totally agree that there's a big danger, if one follows the strategy I described, of personal bias making one confuse "intelligent" with "what I want to be true" or with "what I enjoy because it is contrarian". However, I am aware of this danger and work to mitigate it in various ways. Also, I should mention that I don't think that grayed-out comments are 0.5 likely to be highly intelligent - I'd say it's more like about 0.1 or 0.2. Overall, I think that the benefit of prioritizing grayed-out comments, to me, has been worth it so far.

droithomme 7y ago

> that’s against the HN guidelines It's also against Nazi guidelines to have open and honest free speech as opposed to speech that simply supports the agenda of those in power. Good for you for supporting the elite power! I hope they reward you for licking their anus vigorously, Mr. Chamberlain.

dang 7y ago
Ok, that's enough now. Since you clearly don't want to use HN as intended, I've banned this account.
- greglindahl 7y ago
  Finally!
- strategarius 7y ago
  It's naive to think that Russian, Chinese and just fat trolls do not use HN as a resource for work and entertainment. Some entrance filter is required.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  My compliments on your patience in the face of some really vile personal attacks. So far as I could tell, you never lost your temper, and you gave far more grace than seemed deserved.