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Someone already asked, but I imagine it's the same reason one might put women in lingerie or men in underwear in their blog posts.
by dqv 6y ago
Someone already asked, but I imagine it's the same reason one might put women in lingerie or men in underwear in their blog posts.
- RedComet 6y agoThat's disturbing.
- klyrs 6y agoIt's a test. Do HN readers evaluate articles purely on the quality of their contents, or do we also judge on the basis of the author's identity and associations? For example, I found this conversation to be rather interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078739
- Kye 6y agoIt is interesting because one popular narrative on here is that the message is what matters, and it doesn't matter if the personality delivering it is revolting. But that narrative seems to have an exception for what some people find revolting. Personally, I think the art should increase in size by one pixel every time someone complains.
- dqv 6y agoI don't really care about the art and I don't know enough about the author to judge him. I do know that I am not fond of certain HN personalities, namely patio11 and jacquesm, which makes me more skeptical of the things they say.
- RedComet 6y agoPerhaps you didn't see, but the images I was asking about are indeed part of the article.
- klyrs 6y agoIt's window dressing. You don't like the aesthetic, that's fine. But you're focused on the window dressing, and not on what the article has to say.
- RedComet 6y agoReally? People never comment on, say, a popup on a NYT article that gets posted? This is probably a third of the article... but I'm beginning to think you have anthropomorphic dog in this fight, so to speak.
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- klyrs 6y agoAh yes, the ad hominem. Classic. Nope, I'm not a furry, but over the years I've been quite fascinated by how people react to them. For instance, the first person who responded to your comment seemed to correlate images of fursonas with partial nudity, which is often sexualized. Over the decades I've observed furries (which has been rather unavoidable as a gamer/hacker), from what I can tell, it isn't a sexual thing. Sure, some furries are horny, and those furries like sexualized images... but there's plenty of folks who are furry but don't use that as an outlet for their sexual energies. It's kinda like leather. Some people wear leather for protection, some people wear leather because it's stylish... and some people have a leather kink. The kinksters don't ruin leather for the rest of us.