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I'm interested: can you name even one more of the supposed "many, many signs"? The only one you elucidated doesn't really click; nor can I discern that HN is, b

by Bud 5y ago

I'm interested: can you name even one more of the supposed "many, many signs"? The only one you elucidated doesn't really click; nor can I discern that HN is, by any stretch, a "poor clone" of anything about Reddit. HN has, in fact, many virtues that Reddit can't really touch, and it's basically just as old as Reddit, not that Reddit really invented anything that hadn't already existed for decades.

refulgentis 5y ago
I got banned from posting for _4 hours_ because I got downvoted 5 points in a half hour for these comments. Suffice it to say I tried writing more substantive but the policy had its obvious effect, the off-topic echo chamber was preserved. Look no further than you're being _upvoted_ for quintupling down on inanity completely divorced from the article that's we're supposed to be discussing, even with schoolyard debate nonsense like "can you name even one thing backing up your thesis statement?" (back in the day, or still with more traditional HN posts, you'd get something more like: 'I find that surprising, what makes you feel that way?'. Dang calls this "coming with curiosity" or something like that) Meanwhile in the sibling thread, we have a guy with a year old account neener-neering me for daring to mention things are bad because it's a noob fallacy, and people who have actually been here a while getting flagged/dead through the floor for pointing out this _isn't actually some steadfast rule_, its a classic HN "rule". Meanwhile, I've been here for 12+ years and its never been close to being as bad as it is right now. This site, and you, are getting what always happens to these sites: too large of an audience to preserve quality of discussion over group dynamics. You shall inherit the board, but, no one will be the wiser for you being here - it's all half-baked assertions, schoolyard bully absolutist nonsense that you know isn't argumentation, you'd never talk like that to someone in real life. Then add the thesis here being that people _in the actual company_ aren't seeing the truth, their coworkers are engaged on makework PhD bullshit because otherwise they'd jump to Apple (never mind that the #1, #2, and #3 pieces of career advice in the valley is to leave so you get promoted)
- Bud 5y ago
  Quite to the contrary, I'd talk to you exactly like this in real life. I cordially invite you to coffee if you'd like proof of that. You made a very broad claim that was unsupported, so I asked you to support it. You responded with zero support and with a lot of heated blather that violates as many HN policies as you could manage. Stop complaining about upvotes and downvotes, and support your argument, instead. As for your "coming with curiosity" scolding attempt? Please review the first two words of my comment.

by Bud 5y ago

refulgentis 5y ago

I got banned from posting for _4 hours_ because I got downvoted 5 points in a half hour for these comments. Suffice it to say I tried writing more substantive but the policy had its obvious effect, the off-topic echo chamber was preserved. Look no further than you're being _upvoted_ for quintupling down on inanity completely divorced from the article that's we're supposed to be discussing, even with schoolyard debate nonsense like "can you name even one thing backing up your thesis statement?" (back in the day, or still with more traditional HN posts, you'd get something more like: 'I find that surprising, what makes you feel that way?'. Dang calls this "coming with curiosity" or something like that) Meanwhile in the sibling thread, we have a guy with a year old account neener-neering me for daring to mention things are bad because it's a noob fallacy, and people who have actually been here a while getting flagged/dead through the floor for pointing out this _isn't actually some steadfast rule_, its a classic HN "rule". Meanwhile, I've been here for 12+ years and its never been close to being as bad as it is right now. This site, and you, are getting what always happens to these sites: too large of an audience to preserve quality of discussion over group dynamics. You shall inherit the board, but, no one will be the wiser for you being here - it's all half-baked assertions, schoolyard bully absolutist nonsense that you know isn't argumentation, you'd never talk like that to someone in real life. Then add the thesis here being that people _in the actual company_ aren't seeing the truth, their coworkers are engaged on makework PhD bullshit because otherwise they'd jump to Apple (never mind that the #1, #2, and #3 pieces of career advice in the valley is to leave so you get promoted)

Bud 5y ago
Quite to the contrary, I'd talk to you exactly like this in real life. I cordially invite you to coffee if you'd like proof of that. You made a very broad claim that was unsupported, so I asked you to support it. You responded with zero support and with a lot of heated blather that violates as many HN policies as you could manage. Stop complaining about upvotes and downvotes, and support your argument, instead. As for your "coming with curiosity" scolding attempt? Please review the first two words of my comment.