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Oh so there is a paywall? That sucks
by GEBBL 6y ago
Oh so there is a paywall? That sucks
- onemoresoop 6y agoThere is a need to put food on a table. I just made my contribution and not to pass the paywall, Im lucky I still have a job and DoreenMichelle could use some support in these times. HackerNewsers, if there is a time to support others, this is the time! Help anyone you can. Or help Doreen like I did. Anything can help, even words of encouragement if one can’t afford to make any donnation
- onemoresoop 6y agoDid I just get downvoted? What for?
- dang 6y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Corrective upvotes are a thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=corrective%20upvote&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- onemoresoop 6y agoYeah, sorry about that, i was flabbergasted as I didnt expect to make a good deed and get multiple thumbs down.
- dang 6y agoVoting is a statistical cloud, meaning you can't relate to it deterministically. There are all sorts of weird outliers for reasons you (i.e. any of us) can't understand or even imagine, so you have to let go of trying to explain particular data points. When all else fails I just remind myself that misclicks happen. This is a special case of what is in fact the biggest challenge on HN. If you try to interpret individual data points, given that so little information is available, you'll end up curve-fitting the worst picture from your own imagination. It is a sort of demonic connect-the-dots game where, given a few dots, we end up recreating our own shadow: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=demons%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... It's we who are doing it, not the data, which is what makes it so frustrating: only we know where our own buttons are, so only we can push them so reliably, over and over. But since we don't know we're doing it, it feels like the other person is doing it, or the community is doing it, and that feeling is intensely convincing! It's crazy-making. There are lots of statistical clouds like that on HN—the opinions of commenters are another. This is why users frequently post angry theories about how awful the commenters are, but the angry theories are all contradictory. Each user is recreating their own shadow from the data points they happen to notice and dislike (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=notice%20dislike%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), and since we have different shadows, we end up with different theories.
- onemoresoop 6y agoYou’re absolutely right. Thanks for the time and energy in writing this response. I’ve observed your interventions over time and they are all reasonable and needed.
- magicalhippo 6y agoFWIW that down arrow is dang close to the up arrow. I have miss-clicked more than once.
- pmiller2 6y agoThat's why there's an "undown" link now that's active for a limited period after you downvote. Similarly, there's an "unvote" link.
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- RuleOfBirds 6y agoYou'd rather an ad-network, or you just expect people to share, give, and benefit you for free, or...is there another option? Kudos to the author for providing value and getting compensated.
- GEBBL 6y agoOne blog post is not enough to warrant a request for money. How do you know they are even telling the truth?
- CosmicShadow 6y agoMaybe click their profile and see 27k karma and them in the top HN user list? Don't pay if you don't know who they are or care. Just because you don't know someone doesn't mean others don't.
- leetcrew 6y agoDoreenMichele is pretty well known around these parts. if she's running a hoax, it's an elaborate one.