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What is this? Who are these people and why does anyone care about their conversation? Wow, downvotes for asking a legitimate question about a pointless, contex

What is this? Who are these people and why does anyone care about their conversation? Wow, downvotes for asking a legitimate question about a pointless, contextless discussion between randos. What a lovely and welcoming community you have here.

zepto 5y ago
It’s easy to Google Paul Graham.
fullshark 5y ago
Don't know who Sabine VanderLinden is, but Paul Graham is the cofounder of ycombinator and his tweets/blogposts are frequently posted here and discussed as a result. I'm not sure why this is interesting other than how it reflects misinformation can grow on social media?
- deleted 5y ago
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kevinventullo 5y ago
Paul Graham created Hacker News.
yannoninator 5y ago
HN is controlled by automatic downvote bots, there are almost no real users on it, you just get used to it. edit: here we go, flagged, you see?
mnd999 5y ago
Downvotes (and flags) are getting ridiculous on this site. I’ve recently been downvoted for (among other things) criticising Tesla, speaking up for women, being a dick. Only one of those was justified. This will also get downvoted.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  > This will also get downvoted. For breaking the community guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
  - mnd999 5y ago
    Yeah, and it’s a dumb guideline. If there’s no feedback we will never improve. Slashdot used to have meta moderation for this very reason.
    - yannoninator 5y ago
      What needs to be done is show a LIST of accounts who have downvoted or flagged a post. Then we can find out if there really are bots on this site. (I am leaning towards there are.)
rg111 5y ago
Apart from Paul Graham being the co-founder of YC, it is highly interesting to see someone's "quote" getting refuted publicly, directly by someone they claim to have said something. I see a lot of quotes by Einstein, Abe Lincoln, and Gandhi every day that are so wildly imagined. Most basic common-knowledge being packed as quotes by them. And people upvote/like/share stuff like that like sheep. None of them are alive. They can't say anything to stupid stuff they are accredited to, but didn't really say. There are several fact-finding websites [0] run by people to debunk fake quotes and this is a common passtime of some nerds [1]. But here we see, in the age of Twitter, someone is getting caught red-handed by the exact same person, not some fact-finder, not some fact-checking site, etc. It is highly interesting to see. Isn't that the criteria for HN posts? [0]:https://quoteinvestigator.com https://quoteinvestigator.com [1]: https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-the-definition-of-insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-yet-expecting-different-results-What-is-your-interpretation https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-the-definition-of-insani...

zepto 5y ago

It’s easy to Google Paul Graham.

fullshark 5y ago

Don't know who Sabine VanderLinden is, but Paul Graham is the cofounder of ycombinator and his tweets/blogposts are frequently posted here and discussed as a result. I'm not sure why this is interesting other than how it reflects misinformation can grow on social media?

deleted 5y ago
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kevinventullo 5y ago

Paul Graham created Hacker News.

yannoninator 5y ago

HN is controlled by automatic downvote bots, there are almost no real users on it, you just get used to it. edit: here we go, flagged, you see?

mnd999 5y ago

Downvotes (and flags) are getting ridiculous on this site. I’ve recently been downvoted for (among other things) criticising Tesla, speaking up for women, being a dick. Only one of those was justified. This will also get downvoted.

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
> This will also get downvoted. For breaking the community guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
- mnd999 5y ago
  Yeah, and it’s a dumb guideline. If there’s no feedback we will never improve. Slashdot used to have meta moderation for this very reason.
  - yannoninator 5y ago
    What needs to be done is show a LIST of accounts who have downvoted or flagged a post. Then we can find out if there really are bots on this site. (I am leaning towards there are.)

rg111 5y ago

Apart from Paul Graham being the co-founder of YC, it is highly interesting to see someone's "quote" getting refuted publicly, directly by someone they claim to have said something. I see a lot of quotes by Einstein, Abe Lincoln, and Gandhi every day that are so wildly imagined. Most basic common-knowledge being packed as quotes by them. And people upvote/like/share stuff like that like sheep. None of them are alive. They can't say anything to stupid stuff they are accredited to, but didn't really say. There are several fact-finding websites [0] run by people to debunk fake quotes and this is a common passtime of some nerds [1]. But here we see, in the age of Twitter, someone is getting caught red-handed by the exact same person, not some fact-finder, not some fact-checking site, etc. It is highly interesting to see. Isn't that the criteria for HN posts? [0]:https://quoteinvestigator.com https://quoteinvestigator.com [1]: https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-the-definition-of-insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-yet-expecting-different-results-What-is-your-interpretation https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-the-definition-of-insani...