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The culture of hackernews is being poisoned by the culture of reddit during this pandemic.
by jshevek 6y ago
The culture of hackernews is being poisoned by the culture of reddit during this pandemic.
- bathtub365 6y agoWhat is the culture of reddit? I don't read or post there.
- jshevek 6y agoThere are many aspects of the culture of reddit which is poisoning the culture of hackernews during this pandemic, to save time I'll just address the portion of reddit culture that is evidenced here: the practice of pretending to invent something that already exists and naming it in a manner somewhat analogous to its existing name. The is a special case of the culture of repetitive, unimaginative, formulaic humor threads in which a series of people pretend to engage in a conversation in earnest, but the entire thread is satire, or meta, or fake invention, etc. Edit: It seems to me that there is a correlation between the users who participate in these kinds of threads, and the users who damage the culture of HN in other ways. I'm not speaking of the specific users in this particular humor thread, but what I've seen in the past of humor threads in general. Clicking on their profile and viewing past comments, I've found that humor-thread participants often also engage in ideological battle, rely heavily on emotionally manipulative rhetoric, make low quality fallacious arguments, etc.