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Why the hell is HN so downvote happy?
by annadane 6y ago
Why the hell is HN so downvote happy?
- easytiger 6y agoReddit is here. It has been a swift decline notable in the last year or so. Sadly. Even fairly uncontroversial assertions of fact are downvoted frequently
- kache_ 6y agoyou know you are on orange reddit right?
- folkrav 6y agoWhat a pretentious (and wildly indemonstrable) take.
- packthetop 6y agoWhat a pretentious (and wildly indemonstrable) comment
- easytiger 6y agoIt is based on my experience of using this site for 12 years. You can huff about it all you please.
- folkrav 6y agoNot huffing at all, you basically just confirmed yourself my very affirmation: you pulled that out of thin air. Feel free to think it, still doesn't make it neither neither true, false nor demonstrable. As to the pretentiousness of the thing, that's usually my take on people who feel fine talking about 330mil+ MAUs as a single person.
- easytiger 6y ago> you pulled that out of thin air As opposed to your opinion that is empirically flawless and unquestionable?
- folkrav 6y agoOpinion is opinion, thus me explicitly calling it opinion. My take is honestly supported by the very concept of faulty generalization fallacy - given that you did confirm you based this claim on anecdotal evidence - if you ask me, but maybe that's just me.
- Shared404 6y ago> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Exmoor 6y ago> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- annadane 6y agoYes, but it's also clear that there's something very funny going on here, rules be damned
- packthetop 6y agoCopy+pasting the rules is even more boring, just move on
- raunakdag 6y agoI feel like there's a relevant XKCD here about the irrelevance of commenting on irrelevance but I'm struggling to remember which.
- hyperdimension 6y agoWell, it's not all that relevant to the conversation at hand, anyway... :)
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI actually think it's good to have the community enforce/explain our standards from time to time, within reason. Dang can't see everything, and where he does it takes time to respond. Downvoting/flagging works too, but some may legitimately not know that they've broken a guideline.
- UhDev 6y agoWhy can't I downvote?
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoYou need 501 karma.
- UhDev 6y agoThanks for answering my question instead of downvoting it!
- Shared404 6y agoYou may find this page helpful, I know I did (In the sense that it let me better understand what all was going on). https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- tacocataco 6y agoThat 1 is triggering my OCD.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoWell, you could also phrase it as “You need more than 500 karma.” :)
- fortran77 6y ago/r/LOLHackerNews