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Is it just me, or is the feel of the comment on this post different than other HN posts? There are a lot more snarky jokes. A little more combative. It feels li
by Hnrobert42 6y ago
Is it just me, or is the feel of the comment on this post different than other HN posts? There are a lot more snarky jokes. A little more combative. It feels like why I stopped reading Reddit. I hope it doesn’t metastasize to posts on other topics.
- zorkavatar 6y agoWelcome to the wonderful world of "Show HN"
- Hnrobert42 6y agoI don’t get this same feeling on all ShowHN posts. Most of them, especially for individual projects like this, are supportive critiques of the thing being “shown”.
- zorkavatar 6y agoSays the man who's never posted a Show. You wouldn't know, bud, you wouldn't know. :D
- baxtr 6y agoMaybe these are /r/wallstreetbets folks flocking in? On a more serious note: I think the topic of stocks and getting rich real quick might generate that kind of feel, on any platform. Probably borderline for HN to have these discussions?
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- pietrovismara 6y agoIt's more the people who pay for the bloomberg terminal who can't handle the headline. The opposite crowd of /r/wallstreetbets.
- BoorishBears 6y agoNo, half the sarcasm is at the expense of Bloomberg. This is the people "sticking it to the hedge funds" pouring in.
- outime 6y agoI noticed more snarky comments in general in the last 1-1.5 years. I just downvote/flag them and move on. If it some day becomes unbearable then I'll just click on the links and not read the comments anymore - which would be a shame because it's what most of the value of this site is about.
- Tarsul 6y agomaybe it has something to do with the confidence of the posting: "no prob, I built the next best thing". Might come off as arrogant and that probably triggers people.
- pc86 6y ago> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob[0] illusion[1], as[2] old[3] as[4] the[5] hills.[6] [7] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- BoorishBears 6y ago9 times out of 10 someone says this, they're taking one tiny interaction and making a huge stretch. But this post definitely has a very bizarre comment section compared to most. And not just any one comment, but almost every thread. Maybe it has to do with the "Gamestonks" moniker and what it entails
- pwdisswordfish6 6y agoHacker News was never good.
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- _fat_santa 6y agoHacker News has always been reddit. All these comments are just people seeing through the matrix.
- minikites 6y agoHacker News is Reddit with a thesaurus. This is only an insult to Hacker News if you think Reddit is bad, but they clearly share the same dynamic brought on by the perverse incentives of the "karma" system and individually threaded comments. Classic discussion forum interfaces (e.g. vBulletin or phpBB) allow for much richer and calmer communication.
- DavidSJ 6y agoI independently had the same thought.
- newsclues 6y agoBloomberg would be threatened by an alternative to their cash cow terminals
- fortran77 6y ago/r/LOLHackerNews
- SubiculumCode 6y agoAs soon as someone started talking about swinging their big Bloomberg D, and going all alpha corporate overlord, the thread went to shite.