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Yep. I’m in your side. My comment was mostly to add context because it looked like folks were downvoting you because googling makes people mad.
by codezero 6y ago
Yep. I’m in your side. My comment was mostly to add context because it looked like folks were downvoting you because googling makes people mad.
- Pfhreak 6y agoOr because the comment was low effort.
- codezero 6y agoI make low effort comments all the time (and I’m trying to improve). We need to work together. Ultimately I think we are all on the same side. An encouraging comment can help a low efforter see the light.
- ethbr0 6y agoPedantic nitpicking is a greater threat to HN than low effort comments.
- codezero 6y agoTalking at, and not with each other is worse than both :)
- ethbr0 6y agoMy experience has been there's a small Venn sliver of people who are both diligent enough to continue an extended thread and sociopathic(?) enough to completely ignore what the other person is saying. That said, HN probably beats the average on finding those folks too. ;) Tbh, I expect most of the downvotes are from people who weren't gaming in the late 90s.
- codezero 6y agoI think a huge element of it is that comment boards like this are hugely impersonal compared to forums back in the day. There's very little room for socialization, so we don't socialize on these platforms, we proselytize, and sometimes it looks like socializing :)