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well.. just the way you are approaching it

• Jun8 15y ago
  adevv, you're frustrated right now, which is totally understandable. Downvoting, counter-comments and flags in forums can be brutal. When faced with behavior that seems senseless and makes you angry a good strategy is to employ some exponential backoff algorithm (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/backoff.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/backoff.html), i.e. increase your reply time and empathy by 2x before taking action. Otherwise, things start to go the way of pointless "Oh yeah, take this" exchanges. How about gathering some data (scrape all the flagged submissions over a period and see if any patterns emerge) and present it to the community? I would very much would like to see such an analysis (e.g. there were some allegations in the past that submissions get quickly flagged that are negative about YC companies).
  • adevv 15y ago
    first sensible comment here. you know what, i dont know if I have the energy to do this I just had a great deal of expectations about HN and it seems maybe its not the forum I had painted it to be Thanks anyways. sorry about the bad blood. will take a look at the article you are awesome!