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Contrarian opinion that I'm not sure I hold: think carefully about what you say, and if it's controversial, be brave/make a throwaway.
by ta17711771 6y ago
Contrarian opinion that I'm not sure I hold: think carefully about what you say, and if it's controversial, be brave/make a throwaway.
- majewsky 6y agoIt's very valuable that HN allows throwaway accounts for these circumstances (unlike some other platforms where they allow only one account per person). However this doesn't help if the significance of a comment only becomes clear after it has been posted.
- ta17711771 6y agoHaving a hard time thinking of such a case.
- majewsky 6y agoYou cannot think of anything that was not controversial, say, 40 years ago that is highly controversial now?
- dang 6y agoThat makes me wonder what HN's archive will look like in 30 years.
- ta17711771 6y agoPedantic, hahaha...also infomative.
- majewsky 6y agoMaybe people in the future will make fun of anything besides that Dropbox comment.
- ta17711771 6y agoNot that I would say, no.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoDisagree. There is a lot of -- I mean a a lot of -- propaganda on reddit and HN. There are a lot of bad faith posters using throwaway accounts to skew dialog. I call em out when I see em, but it's pretty clear what's going on. 10 day old accounts posting in nothing but pro-China threads, or 1 day old accounts talking about how terrible Intel/AMD/ARM/etc. is.
- ta17711771 6y agoI don't see what this has to do with the parent, unless you're trying to say throwaways shouldn't be allowed.