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I'm always surprised when garbage articles like these make it to the top of HN. I guess HN is not immune to "i only read the title" kind of threads. And since i

by lopis 6y ago

I'm always surprised when garbage articles like these make it to the top of HN. I guess HN is not immune to "i only read the title" kind of threads. And since it sounds like an anti-facebook kind of article, it gets HN's blessing, and off to the top it goes. There was one more thing you missed that is not explicitly in the article. In virtually any country there are groups on facebook to buy pretty much anything, including live birds. Is Bangladesh really so different?

kzrdude 6y ago
I'm not sure if you think it's legitimate or not, but one of the effects of upvoting a story on hacker news, is that the thread stays around on the front page, and the discussion grows. Users can upvote stories either because the story itself or because of the HN discussion thread; and it's often the latter that we come to this site for, isn't it? Isn't that legtimate, to upvote something if you already like or think you'd like the to read the discussion about it? Irrelevant note: This story didn't earn my vote.
oefrha 6y ago
> I guess HN is not immune to "i only read the title" kind of threads. It's obviously not, and the effect is often exaggerated when you read the comment section early on: it simply takes more time to read the article and write thoughtful responses than replying to the title immediately with canned talking points. Calling this a garbage article may be overly uncharitable, but I do put myself on high alert and try not to fall prey to Gell-Mann amnesia whenever I read one of these weird-phenomenon-in-unfamiliar-country stories, even when there's no obvious propaganda value behind it, since half of the time I read one about a country I'm actually familiar with, the phenomenon is misunderstood, blown way out of proportions, or sometimes even foreign to local residents.
ryder9 6y ago
pretty funny given how much of a sense of superiority & ego people on this site have over reddit
dfxm12 6y ago
Luckily, the website provides us with flag & hide features in case you want to pop an article out of your front page or if you want to ask the mods to take a closer look at it.

by lopis 6y ago

kzrdude 6y ago

I'm not sure if you think it's legitimate or not, but one of the effects of upvoting a story on hacker news, is that the thread stays around on the front page, and the discussion grows. Users can upvote stories either because the story itself or because of the HN discussion thread; and it's often the latter that we come to this site for, isn't it? Isn't that legtimate, to upvote something if you already like or think you'd like the to read the discussion about it? Irrelevant note: This story didn't earn my vote.

oefrha 6y ago

> I guess HN is not immune to "i only read the title" kind of threads. It's obviously not, and the effect is often exaggerated when you read the comment section early on: it simply takes more time to read the article and write thoughtful responses than replying to the title immediately with canned talking points. Calling this a garbage article may be overly uncharitable, but I do put myself on high alert and try not to fall prey to Gell-Mann amnesia whenever I read one of these weird-phenomenon-in-unfamiliar-country stories, even when there's no obvious propaganda value behind it, since half of the time I read one about a country I'm actually familiar with, the phenomenon is misunderstood, blown way out of proportions, or sometimes even foreign to local residents.

ryder9 6y ago

pretty funny given how much of a sense of superiority & ego people on this site have over reddit

dfxm12 6y ago

Luckily, the website provides us with flag & hide features in case you want to pop an article out of your front page or if you want to ask the mods to take a closer look at it.