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You're not being downvoted for the spelling error. You just made a politically charged accusation against the HN community for focusing more on the high-school

You're not being downvoted for the spelling error. You just made a politically charged accusation against the HN community for focusing more on the high-schooler-created-a-self-driving-bicycle than the github-repo-happened-to-be-in-chinese part of a post. This is a legitimately cool project regardless of the origin of its creator and the language they speak.

nsonha 5y ago
it's not a cool project if you are not able to understand it. There are probably Chinese hacker news or something similar and there would be a perfect place for this cool post. Why doesn't hacker news have content in other languages? Is that because those contents are not cool or that people respect the expectation that everything here is in a common language that everyone can understand?
- scoopertrooper 5y ago
  Well video is the universal language and the first link in the repo's readme is to this video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a. Within it you can see this guy's neat-o bicycle balancing itself, driving along the road, and avoiding obstacles. The page is also quite readable if you use Chrome's auto-translate feature. In any event, I'm not saying you don't have a point. Maybe posting the translated version would have been a better choice. However, you made your point in an obnoxious way that instantly alienated yourself from potential readers. If votes on hacker news are important to you (and they seem to be), then you should take this as a lesson on how to improve your approach to discussing topics without losing your audience.
  - nsonha 5y ago
    No I don't care about votes, I don't even downvote ever, and rarely upvote tbh. It's just an interesting thing to observe. I've just seeked to the end of the video and agree that it is really cool. It's just there are so many cool things to check out on HN that are often not in my field of expertise which makes them hard enough to parse, and then there is this post that is in a completely different language with a non descriptive title.

nsonha 5y ago

it's not a cool project if you are not able to understand it. There are probably Chinese hacker news or something similar and there would be a perfect place for this cool post. Why doesn't hacker news have content in other languages? Is that because those contents are not cool or that people respect the expectation that everything here is in a common language that everyone can understand?

scoopertrooper 5y ago
Well video is the universal language and the first link in the repo's readme is to this video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a. Within it you can see this guy's neat-o bicycle balancing itself, driving along the road, and avoiding obstacles. The page is also quite readable if you use Chrome's auto-translate feature. In any event, I'm not saying you don't have a point. Maybe posting the translated version would have been a better choice. However, you made your point in an obnoxious way that instantly alienated yourself from potential readers. If votes on hacker news are important to you (and they seem to be), then you should take this as a lesson on how to improve your approach to discussing topics without losing your audience.
- nsonha 5y ago
  No I don't care about votes, I don't even downvote ever, and rarely upvote tbh. It's just an interesting thing to observe. I've just seeked to the end of the video and agree that it is really cool. It's just there are so many cool things to check out on HN that are often not in my field of expertise which makes them hard enough to parse, and then there is this post that is in a completely different language with a non descriptive title.