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Occasionally, very occasionally, it’s nice to read somebody just expressing enthusiasm instead of just posting a clever counter argument. It’s like a spice that
by gentleman11 5y ago
Occasionally, very occasionally, it’s nice to read somebody just expressing enthusiasm instead of just posting a clever counter argument. It’s like a spice that you only want a little of but that’s still nice
- r_police 5y agoI mean, you could watch the same news on r/news if you want to see that kind of comments. We don't do that here, and tourists always try to emulate their customes but it is still wrong. Just commenting as a person with many years on this platform.
- jorvi 5y agoEh, I can understand both sides of the fence. 'this is why I read HN' is nothing but a slightly more verbal '+1', but as you stated it does humanize HN and makes it feel more social. In terms of downvotes, what really irks me and what I often see is people posting factually correct information, but still being sent into faded oblivion because some sect of the community's worldview doesn't agree with the facts.
- ben0x539 5y agoI don't understand this viewpoint. Information being factually correct is a low bar. I have a lot of factually correct information that is irrelevant or misleading, or that I could state in a way that drags down the level of discourse more than it illuminates truth. Factually correct information is usually involved in tu quoque fallacies, or used to goad people into drawing false, non-sequitur conclusions. The Hacker News guidelines lay out a list of expectations for comments that go beyond factual correctness. If someone uses factually correct information to make a comment thread worse, I can see how downvotes could be justified.
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- jorvi 5y agoThe fact (heh) that people instantly rammed the downvote button to get what I said to -2 ironically proves my point. Oh well.
- Teever 5y ago"this"
- Dylan16807 5y agoDoes that spice go bad if it turns gray?